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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.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$381kHealth$329kPhilanthropy$175kEducation$35kRecreation & Sports$22kEnvironment$18kAnimals$5kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DESERT X$5,000
SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD$5,000
ENGLISH IN ACTION$5,000
THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$5,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,600
CELEBRATE THE BEAT$1,000
THE FIELD$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%HIGH DESERT TEST SITES: $10k → 14%DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $5k → 28%IPTF: $25k → 14%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $10k → 6%KEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $25k → 13%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%HIGH DESERT TEST SITES: $8k → 14%SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $5k → 28%IPTF: $25k → 14%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $8k → 6%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%HIGH DESERT TEST SITES: $4k → 14%AMERICAN FRIEND OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $5k → 28%IPTF: $25k → 14%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $3k → 6%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $5k → 28%IPTF: $25k → 14%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $5k → 28%IPTF: $25k → 14%ENGLISH IN ACTION: $5k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT: $25k → 11%ENGLISH IN ACTION: $5k → 6%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ENGLISH IN ACTION: $5k → 6%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $79k → 6%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $55k → 6%RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $5k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $40k → 6%THE DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $30k → 6%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $25k → 6%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $22k → 6%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $17k → 6%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $17k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $5k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $5k → 6%ASPEN SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB: $5k → 6%ASPEN SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB: $5k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $5k → 6%ASPEN SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB: $5k → 6%ASPEN SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$856k · 12 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$856k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationReligionPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MA
    MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +171%
  • SC
    SYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +56%
  • AR
    ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIEND OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +470%
  • RM
    RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Danceaspen

To enrich the roaring fork community through locally based curations of high caliber dance.

Arts & Culture
2
Theatre Aspen

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Jazz At Aspen-Snowmass

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
5
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Cultivate and enhances an understanding and appreciation of dance. bring dance companies to our 2 home cities. dance school for pre collegiate students.

Arts & Culture
6
Aspen Science Center

To advance the public understanding of science through lifelong discovery, exploration and education.

Education
7
Aspen Art Museum Foundation

Establishment and maintenance of an endowment fund exclusively for the aspen art museum

Arts & Culture
8
Scottsdale Arts

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
10
Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Endowment Inc

The foundation provides support for a variety of aspen santa fe ballet needs, including the creation of new works, touring, instruction and financial aid.

Arts & Culture
12
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $304,000 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONIPTF: $125,000 · OtherIPTFJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $25,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $25,000 · OtherASPEN SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEND OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Other+5 more: $6,400 · OtherASPEN ART MUSEUM: $228,175 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUMMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $55,100 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INCANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $24,100 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTERHIGH DESERT TEST SITES: $22,100 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT TEST SITESTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,700 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,800 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropySYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $25,000 · ReligionEnglish in Action: $15,000 · EducationRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $5,000 · EducationASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $17,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,795 · Animals
Other$525,400Arts & Culture$350,175Philanthropy$25,300Religion$25,000Education$20,000Environment$17,500Animals$4,795

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $228,175 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $55,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSYBARITE CHAMBER PLAYERS LTD: $25,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $24,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH DESERT TEST SITES: $22,100 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEnglish in Action: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,795 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $4,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE THE BEAT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Galen Family Foun…Aspen Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Galen Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Edelstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edelstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Edelstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Edelstein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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