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Joyce a 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $35) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MLMountain Lion Foundation2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +11%
- CRCASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC5× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +49%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- NSNORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ART CENTERone grant, 2018 · $1k
- PWPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +26%
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Animal Dominion Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs worldwide, ensuring they find permanent, loving homes. The organization emphasizes direct support to rescuers on the ground, promoting animal welfare,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover and the most unlike its peers is Norton Simon Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 129 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 NORTON SIMON ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mountain Lion Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds TIGER PRESERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOR HORSES ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Carter Reservoir Mustangs Inc Carter Reservoir Mustangs Registry ↗
- Who funds NO DOGS LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds Animals' Angels Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NOAH'S LOST ARK INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds PROJECT K9 HERO ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT 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: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc
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 Joyce a Ward 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Amac-Action Inc — 0% of income from government
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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