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William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust

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
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$3.4MPhilanthropy$852kInternational$523kHuman Services$300kArts & Culture$290kReligion$185kHealth$150kFood & Nutrition$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $386k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$250,000
ELIH FOUNDATION$226,000
ITREK (FORMERLY ISRAEL & CO)$110,000
NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC$50,000
COLEL CHABAD$43,000
CAST$35,000
GREAT AMERICAN FLAG PRESERVATION GROUP$30,000
PECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
CITY HARVEST$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
EAST END SEAPORT MUSEUM FOUNDATION$25,000
ELDRIDGE STREET PROJECT INC$25,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$25,000
HARBOR ACADEMY$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAST: $35k → 10%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $18k → 11%CAST: $35k → 10%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $18k → 11%CAST: $25k → 10%NEIGHBORS LINK: $25k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $25k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $25k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $18k → 9%DOROT: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 27 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

$5.7M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +20%
  • II
    ITREK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $418k · revenue +61%
  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $350k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • MF
    MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
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
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

5
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
6
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
7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
10
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
11
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great American Flag Preservation Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%63%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,725

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,270,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCITREK INC — $418,000 · InternationalITREK INC+2 more — $48,000 · InternationalELIH FOUNDATION — $728,000 · OtherELIH FOUNDATIONCOLEL CHABAD — $165,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADELDRIDGE STREET PROJECT INC — $125,000 · OtherELDRIDGE STREET PROJECT INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $102,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $100,000 · OtherMARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…EAST END SEAPORT MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $56,000 · Other+20 more — $325,400 · Other+20 moreSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $350,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCAT…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $345,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHA…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $232,000 · EducationThe New York Public…THE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationPECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $35,000 · Education+3 more — $32,500 · EducationCAST INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $93,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC — $36,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT AMERICAN FLAG PRESERVATION GROUP — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCITY HARVEST INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR NEEDY INC — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $75,000 · Recreation & Sports
International$2,736,000Other$1,676,400Education$1,044,500Human Services$229,000Arts & Culture$210,000Food & Nutrition$121,000Recreation & Sports$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,270,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetITREK INC — $418,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $345,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $232,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCAST INC — $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $93,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC — $36,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT AMERICAN FLAG PRESERVATION GROUP — $30,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR NEEDY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTIKVA CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOROT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • Cast Inc15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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