· Private foundation
Clifton and Clara Ward Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $685k
- $250k+1 grant · $799k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYAN COLLEGE CLARA WARD SCHOOL OF NURSING | $799,061 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FOX RIVER VALLEY | $200,000 |
| THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $135,000 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $100,000 |
| WILLIAMSBURG COMMUNITY CHAPEL | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $75,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| HAGGAI INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING | $25,000 |
| BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| TEACHING TO TEACH | $20,000 |
| BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| ANKERBERG THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH ISSUES | $15,000 |
| LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| IDEALS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +40%- BBBethel Bible Village5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%
- LALIFE ACTION MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BBBRAINERD BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- RTRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -31%
- LVLOOKOUT VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The academy will seek to create a desire to know and serve god in the hearts of our students by equipping them academically, physically, spiritually, and socially to fulfill god's purpose for their lives.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Through prayerful dependence on god, dayton christian schools (lmi) provides a biblically integrated, academically rigorous educational experience. instilling in students a love for christ and god's word, a love for learning, and a love…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
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- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds IDEALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH ISSUES ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
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: The Joe and Velma Dewitt Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clifton and Clara Ward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clifton and Clara Ward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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