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The Edelstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $78,625 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $25,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $10,100 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGH DESERT TEST SITES | $8,000 |
| SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD | $5,000 |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| DESERT X | $5,000 |
| THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE FIELD | $1,000 |
| CELEBRATE THE BEAT | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +171%
- SCSYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +56%
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIEND OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +470%
- RMRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVALone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enrich the roaring fork community through locally based curations of high caliber dance.
Entertain, enlighten, enrich, educate and challenge the residents and visitors of the roaring fork valley through professional quality theatrical productions, new play development initiatives and a broad spectrum of educational programs.
The mission of jazz aspen snowmass is to present and preserve jazz and related forms of music through world-class festivals, performances and education programs.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Cultivate and enhances an understanding and appreciation of dance. bring dance companies to our 2 home cities. dance school for pre collegiate students.
To advance the public understanding of science through lifelong discovery, exploration and education.
Establishment and maintenance of an endowment fund exclusively for the aspen art museum
To create arts in diverse experiences that engage the community though the development of new and exciting cultural initiatives for the community; the encouragement of active participation and cooperation of the government, business,…
The mission of the colorado springs conservatory is to inspire, motivate, and challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential as artists and as human beings through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.
The foundation provides support for a variety of aspen santa fe ballet needs, including the creation of new works, touring, instruction and financial aid.
The Arvada Center celebrates and elevates the human condition with engaging arts, humanities, education, and entertainment that expand the cultural landscape for everyone who visits us.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Performance Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT TEST SITES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ASPEN JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE THE BEAT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Galen Family Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edelstein Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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