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Travis H and Gladys Edwards Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$38kFood & Nutrition$34kEducation$32kHuman Services$25kReligion$22kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$637k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Keep Olney Beautiful$6,500
Olney Christian Community Center$5,000
Olney Senior Cub Center$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Hamilton Hospital Foundation$2,500
Olney ISD Benevolence Fund$1,500
House of Mercy Enterprises Inc$1,500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Olney Senior Cub Center: $8k → 16%Olney Community Library: $7k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $7k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $7k → 16%Olney Senior Cub Center: $7k → 16%House of Mercy: $5k → 16%House of Mercy Enterprises Inc: $5k → 16%Olney Senior Cub Center: $5k → 16%Olney Senior Cub Center: $5k → 16%Olney Chamber Of Commerce: $5k → 16%Olney Sebior Cub Center: $5k → 16%Olney Christian Community Center: $5k → 16%Olney Senior Cub Center: $5k → 16%Olney Chamber of Commerce: $5k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $5k → 16%Olney Community Library: $5k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $5k → 16%Hamilton Hospital Foundation: $5k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $5k → 16%House of Mercy Enterprises Inc: $5k → 16%Olney Christian Community Center: $5k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $5k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $5k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $5k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $5k → 16%Olney Christian Community Center: $5k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $4k → 16%Olney Christian Community Center: $3k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $3k → 16%Olney Community Library: $3k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $3k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $3k → 16%Olney Fire Department: $3k → 16%Hamilton Hospital Foundation: $3k → 16%Olney Ministerial Alliance: $3k → 16%Olney ISD Belize Trip: $3k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $2k → 16%Olney Ministerial Alliance: $2k → 16%Hamilton Hospital Foundation: $2k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $2k → 16%House of Mercy Enterprises Inc: $2k → 16%Olney Ministerial Alliance: $2k → 16%Olney Christian Community Center: $2k → 16%House of Mercy Enterprises Inc: $2k → 16%Olney ISD Benevolence Fund: $2k → 16%House of Mercy Enterprises Inc: $2k → 16%Keep Olney Beautiful: $2k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$179k · 10 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$179k
$8k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementReligionEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • OS
    OLNEY SENIOR CUB CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +68%
  • KO
    KEEP OLNEY BEAUTIFUL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +148%
  • OC
    Olney Christian Community Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HO
    House of Mercy
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • OI
    Olney ISD Belize Trip
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLNEY SENIOR CUB CENTER INC: $34,000 · OtherOLNEY SENIOR CUB CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOlney ISD Benevolence Fund: $14,600 · OtherOlney ISD Benevolence FundOlney Chamber of Commerce: $10,000 · OtherOlney Chamber of CommerceOlney Ministerial Alliance: $6,500 · OtherOlney Ministerial AllianceHouse of Mercy: $5,400 · OtherHouse of Mercy+1 more: $2,500 · OtherKEEP OLNEY BEAUTIFUL: $28,000 · Community ImprovementKEEP OLNEY BEAUT…Olney Christian Community Center Inc: $19,800 · ReligionOlney Chris…HOUSE OF MERCY ENTERPRISES LLC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF …OLNEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $14,800 · EducationOlney Hamilton Hospital Foundation: $9,500 · Philanthropy
Other$100,000Community Improvement$28,000Religion$19,800Housing & Shelter$15,000Education$14,800Philanthropy$9,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLNEY SENIOR CUB CENTER INC: $34,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKEEP OLNEY BEAUTIFUL: $28,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetOlney Christian Community Center Inc: $19,800 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY ENTERPRISES LLC: $15,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetOLNEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $14,800 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOlney Chamber of Commerce: $10,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetOlney Hamilton Hospital Foundation: $9,500 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds OLNEY SENIOR CUB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP OLNEY BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds Olney Christian Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ENTERPRISES LLC ↗
  • Who funds OLNEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Olney Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds Olney Hamilton Hospital Foundation ↗

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.

L F and Carla Perry Foundation IncTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Travis H and Gladys Edwards Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Travis H and Gladys Edwards Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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
    2report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Travis H and Gladys Edwards Charitable 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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