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.

The Thomas J Edelman Foundation

The Thomas J Edelman Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$785k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.3MPhilanthropy$2.4MAnimals$1.1MHuman Services$210kArts & Culture$101kHealth$71kInternational$60kReligion$37kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $38k
$10k–50k5 grants · $116k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $785k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL	$785,482
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY	$150,000
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN	$50,000
LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE	$35,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL	$25,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$21,250
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS (ARF HAMPTONS)	$10,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	$7,667
PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC	$5,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE	$5,000
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION	$5,000
FRIENDS OF UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC	$3,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$2,000
EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$2,000

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 (FY17–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 37 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+21%

Still filing today

73%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther

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

TH
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +88%
WC
Wildlife Conservation Society
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $300k · revenue +44%

Funded once

TF
The Frick Collection
one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -22%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -59%
HF
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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 Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

47 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. 47 of the 62 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)

46/47

Grantees still filing

35/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,052,040Philanthropy$1,668,717Animals$1,109,400Community Improvement$742,000Other$705,918Human Services$223,000Social Science$42,500

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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home