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SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION
SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,149 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $353k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes Edge Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes EDGE Foundation is to strengthen the ability of female students to successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical sciences. In addition to a summer program for entering graduate students, the EDGE Foundation provides ongoing support for women pursuing careers in the mathematical sciences at several critical stages of their careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The EDGE SUMMER PROGRAM. The EDGE Summer Program is an intensive immersion experience where a cohort of new graduate students, plus three graduate mentors, five faculty, a difficult dialogues facilitator and guest speakers work together to provide a secure academic foundation and supportive network for the next years of graduate school. The 2025 EDGE Summer Program was hosted in June 2025 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Most expenses were paid before July 1, 2025, such as travel and stipends.
$148,155 spentof which $96,150 as grants85% of program spendingThe Karen EDGE Fellowship In May 2019, the EDGE Foundation received a one-time contribution from Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the 2019 Abel prize. With this contribution, the EDGE Foundation established the Karen EDGE Fellowship, which supports mid-career mathematicians in the United States from groups traditionally underrepresented at research institutions in the mathematical sciences. The Fellowship promotes the research productivity and visibility of these mathematicians, providing grants to each Fellow over three years.
$16,518 spentof which $8,000 as grants9% of program spendingInterdisciplinary Research Laboratory in Mathematical Biology. The program is designed to expose advanced graduate students/postdocs in the mathematical sciences to interdisciplinary work in a lab. Through this opportunity, participants learn about a new interdisciplinary research project and potentially start new research collaborations. Participants and mentors engaged in workshops together to promote best collaborative practices. Then, research pairs worked together in person or virtually for one week to kickstart a new research collaboration. In this fiscal year, the research pairs continued their collaborations, and the program leaders created workshop materials for future installations of the project.
$3,379 spentof which $3,000 as grants2% of program spendingMary Beth Ruskai Fund. This fund was launched as a result of a bequest received in January 2023. Every year, two grants of $5,000 are awarded for a 12-month grant period for professionals in the mathematical sciences to advance their research careers through travel, collaboration, or other activities. The scope of these grants reflects Mary Beth Ruskai's commitment to women and to interdisciplinary work.
$1,574 spent1% of program spendingThe EDGE Foundation provided Mathematically Gifted and Black with $5,100 to support rising leaders in the mathematical sciences.
$5,100 spent3% of program spendingInstitute for Broadening Participation Transaction. The EDGE Foundation contributed $35 to support the organization's mission to increase diversity in the STEM workforce.
$35 spentof which $35 as grants0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,761.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $179k to $500k (+180%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $223.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION?
- SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,149 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $69,149 in grants to SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing