California · Private foundation
Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $260k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 21 | $260k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $164k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $162k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $160k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Heart Foundation | $91,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Ovarian Cancer Circle | $69,500 | 5 | 29% |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $37,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $36,355 | 3 | 0% |
| International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| National Disaster Search Dog Foundation | $25,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $21,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Alliance for Climate Protection | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope the Mission | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Hainer Foundation · California Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation
- How much does Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation give?
- Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $260,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (40%), Education (24%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Heart Foundation ($91k), The Ovarian Cancer Circle ($70k), Alliance for Children's Rights ($60k).
- Does Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hainer Foundation, California Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation based?
- Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation is based in CA.
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