· Private foundation
William Edgar Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRON COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP | $39,620 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $22,600 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| IRON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS | $20,000 |
| OPPEL STRANGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| IRON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| ARCADIA VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| ARCADIA VALLEY R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,605 |
| SOUTHERN IRON COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION | $10,000 |
| MINERAL AREA COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $5,500 |
| WEBSTER UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ICIRON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ORG INC4× · 2019–2022 · $83k · revenue +3%
- AVARCADIA VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS3× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +10%
- CMCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AVARCADIA VALLEY CENTER CITIZENS FORone grant, 2023 · $14k
- SISOUTH IRON COMMUNITY BETTERMENT ASNone grant, 2023 · $8k
- SISOUTHERN IRON COUNTY FIRE DISTone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence through the integration of the liberal arts and professional studies.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Baptist University and the most unlike its peers is The Oppel Strange Forndation. 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 56 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 70 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds IRON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ORG INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT DAVIDSON ↗
- Who funds IRON COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds Missouri Baptist University ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH IRON COMMUNITY BETTERMENT ASN ↗
- Who funds Ozark Valleys Community Services Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John R Lucash Scholarship Trust · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities · Folds of Honor Foundation · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Swope Memorial Loan Fund · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust
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 Edgar Charitable Foundation 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.
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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