New York · Private foundation
The Thomas J Edelman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $785,482
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Thomas J Edelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $1.1M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $757k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $724k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $440k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $410k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $386k | 52% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $235k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hotchkiss School | $1,885,873 | 8 | 1% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $1,106,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $275,000 | 7 | 3% |
| New York School of Interior Design | $255,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Teaching Matters Inc | $157,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $151,667 | 7 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pestalozzi US Childrens Charity Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($479k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thomas J Edelman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · The Philippe & Deborah Dauman Foundation · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · The Mat Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Jane Hipp Brock Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Thomas J Edelman Foundation
- How much does The Thomas J Edelman Foundation give?
- The Thomas J Edelman Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,139,629 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Thomas J Edelman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (31%), Animals (15%).
- Who are The Thomas J Edelman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Hotchkiss School ($1.9M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($1.1M), Georgetown University ($300k).
- Does The Thomas J Edelman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomas J Edelman 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas J Edelman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust.
- Where is The Thomas J Edelman Foundation based?
- The Thomas J Edelman Foundation is based in NY.
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