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William L Edwards & Mary a Edwards Foundation at a glance

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William L Edwards & Mary a Edwards Foundation

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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$155kEducation$60kHuman Services$17kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$3kYouth Development$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES: $4k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%CORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES: $2k → 15%VISCARDI CENTER: $2k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$197k · 10 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
25

Total granted

$197k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+27%

Still filing today

40%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $97k · revenue +67%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +60%
  • CC
    CORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +112%
  • GD
    GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Palm Bch County Public Library Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $96,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY: $32,500 · OtherCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARYTRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE: $22,500 · OtherTRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICEIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherGOLDEN RESCUE: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · Other+15 more: $29,450 · Other+15 moreCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $13,500 · EducationCOLGATE UN…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSYRACUSE U…EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationEVANS SCHO…HENRY VISCARDI SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Warren County: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyCORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 · Human ServicesMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNYAC ATHLETE'S FUND INC: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Health$121,500Other$118,950Education$27,250Philanthropy$10,200Human Services$7,250Arts & Culture$2,500Recreation & Sports$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $96,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Warren County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY VISCARDI SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYAC ATHLETE'S FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Palm Bch County Public Library Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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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 William L Edwards & Mary a Edwards Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William L Edwards & Mary a Edwards Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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How do I get to William L Edwards & Mary a Edwards Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William L Edwards & Mary a 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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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