California · Private foundation
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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $265k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Joyce a Ward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $18k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $5k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $3k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $725 | 33% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $2k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $15k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norton Simon Art Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mountain Lion Foundation | $10,100 | 2 | 2% |
| Castleton Ranch Horse Rescue Inc | $1,950 | 5 | 0% |
| The Art Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc | $1,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Horsepower Sanctuaries Inc Dba Redwings Horse Sanctuary | $900 | 3 | 0% |
| Tiger Preservation Center Inc | $750 | 4 | 0% |
| Speak Up for Horses | $625 | 5 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $588 | 5 | 0% |
| Carter Reservoir Mustangs Inc Carter Reservoir Mustangs Registry | $500 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joyce a Ward 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Joyce a Ward Foundation
- How much does Joyce a Ward Foundation give?
- Joyce a Ward Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joyce a Ward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Animals (37%), Environment (1%).
- Who are Joyce a Ward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Norton Simon Art Foundation ($15k), Mountain Lion Foundation ($10k), Castleton Ranch Horse Rescue Inc ($2k).
- Does Joyce a Ward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joyce a Ward 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 Joyce a Ward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, Bradford Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.
- Where is Joyce a Ward Foundation based?
- Joyce a Ward Foundation is based in CA.
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