How much does William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust give?

William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust reported 27 grants totaling $1,056,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Philanthropy (14%), International (9%).

Who are William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($2.3M), Itrek Inc ($418k), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc ($350k).

Does William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust 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 William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust based?

William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust is based in NY.

William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust

William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $21k
$10k–50k18 grants · $399k
$50k–250k3 grants · $386k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC	$25,000
ELDRIDGE STREET PROJECT INC	$25,000
CITY HARVEST	$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY	$25,000
PECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL	$25,000
EAST END SEAPORT MUSEUM FOUNDATION	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	$20,000

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.7M · 27 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Total granted

$5.7M

$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

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

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.

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

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 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

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 52 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)

33/33

Grantees still filing

23/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$2,736,000Other$1,676,400Education$1,044,500Human Services$229,000Arts & Culture$210,000Food & Nutrition$121,000Recreation & Sports$75,000

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.

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

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 William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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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