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The William & Joyce Edwards Foundation at a glance

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The William & Joyce Edwards 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.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MRecreation & Sports$2.1MHuman Services$56kAnimals$48kPhilanthropy$45kFood & Nutrition$27kEducation$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS$500,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILIES UNITED NETWORK INC: $4k → 12%HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 9 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$4.3M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-5%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & 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

  • PP
    PRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $48k · revenue +18%
  • AI
    ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING
    3× · 2019–2021 · $24k · revenue +48%
  • TH
    The Homestead Community
    2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • TF
    TLRC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • FU
    FAMILIES UNITED NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -5%
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
Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…

Human Services
2
Families Unlimited Network

Families unlimited network provides access to food and resources that support community well-being and self-sustainability.

Human Services
3
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County

Providing pierce county, wa with a consistent and nutritious food supply, so that no person goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
4
Communities in Schools of Puyallup

The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
5
Atwork

Our mission is to empower people with disabilities to be involved, contributing, and thriving members of their communities.

Human Services
6
Pinebrook Family Answers

The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…

Human Services
7
Cultivate Initiatives

The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.

Housing & Shelter
8
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
9
Pierce County Accountable Community of Health

To advance the health of our population by eliminating health disparities including promoting equitable access to high quality and cost effective health and human services and resources, to prevent disease and improve health, to improve…

Health
10
Lifeline Connections

Through superior customer service, high quality programs, and well-trained and dedicated staff, we inspire hope and lifesaving changes for people affected by substance use and mental health conditions.

Health
11
United Way of Pierce County

We mobilize and unite the caring power of Pierce County to tackle our community's toughest challenges to improve lives in measurable and lasting ways. Our bold goal is to lift 15,000 households out of poverty in Pierce County by 2028.

Philanthropy
12
Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation

To empower and enrich our communities through comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment, one individual at a time.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Homestead Community. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,030,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,089,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+2 more: $62,000 · OtherMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $1,000,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSPRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $23,760 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE: $23,500 · Recreation & SportsThe Homestead Community: $17,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES UNITED NETWORK INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$3,181,000Health$1,000,000Youth Development$47,500Philanthropy$45,000Education$38,760Recreation & Sports$23,500Human Services$21,000

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 budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: $47,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $23,760 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE: $23,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Homestead Community: $17,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILIES UNITED NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Woodworth Family Foun…Gary E Milgard Family…Korum for Kids Founda…The Dimmer Family Fou…Greater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Gap FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Woodworth Family FoundationWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Korum for Kids Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 William & Joyce Edwards Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William & Joyce Edwards Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    6report 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

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    How do I get to The William & Joyce Edwards Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The William & Joyce Edwards 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 12 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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