Texas · Private foundation
Amy & Leslie Ware 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $620k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $261k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $615k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $326k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $588k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $288k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $113k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $271k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $888,075 | 5 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $509,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hudson Institute Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Diocese of Dallas | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| BEVP Birds Eye View Project | $115,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Advancing American Freedom Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| State Fair of Texas | $23,180 | 1 | 0% |
| La Fiesta de Las Seis Banderas Inc | $17,887 | 5 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Judy and Paul Whitman Family Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation
- How much does Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation give?
- Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,021,451 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (26%), Social Science (21%).
- Who are Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Methodist University ($888k), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ($509k), Hudson Institute Inc ($225k).
- Does Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation 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 Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005, W P & Bulah Luse Foundation, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax.
- Where is Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation based?
- Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation is based in TX.
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