How much does The Edwards Family Foundation give?

The Edwards Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $166,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Edwards Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Religion (23%), Education (15%).

Who are The Edwards Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lutheran World Relief Inc ($130k), Pastoral Leadership Institute ($119k), Mt Scott Park Center for Learning ($48k).

Does The Edwards Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Edwards Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is The Edwards Family Foundation based?

The Edwards Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Edwards Family Foundation

The Edwards Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Edwards Family 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.

$167k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$281kReligion$247kEducation$161kEnvironment$100kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$46kHealth$39kSocial Science$31kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k47 grants · $132k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF	$25,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,000
GLOBAL REFUGE	$6,000
THE LUKE COMMISSION	$5,500
ROCK CREEK ALLIANCE	$5,000
LUTEC HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
RISE UNIVERSITY PREP	$5,000
HIGH FIVE FOUNDATION	$5,000
HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES	$4,000
GARUNA MINISTRIES	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$4,000
SECOND HARVEST	$4,000
REALOPTIONS	$4,000
WE RAISE FOUNDATION	$4,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 53 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$16k

Still filing today

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentReligionInternationalHousing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

LW
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +48%
PL
PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
5× · 2021–2025 · $119k · revenue +42%
LI
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE
8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +237%

Funded once

RF
RYAA FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $6k
LB
LITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE
one grant, 2023 · $5k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $1k

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.

The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment

Public Land Solutions

Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.

Environment

Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…

Environment

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment

Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment

Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services

Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment

The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Raise Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hands 4 Humanity 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

35 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. 35 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$480,825Religion$203,000International$168,500Environment$117,500Education$57,000Human Services$39,500Health$17,000

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

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR17.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Douglas and Gloria Rumberger Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Bright Funds Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

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 Edwards Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edwards Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely on government for over half their income

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.

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