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Lillian R Wardman Irr Tr

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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$159kHousing & Shelter$121kFood & Nutrition$72kArts & Culture$21kCrime & Legal$21kAnimals$12kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT$7,500
SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING$7,500
CLEVELAND & WOODLEY PARK VILLAGE$7,500
CULPEPPER GARDEN$7,500
LEGAL COUNSEL OF THE ELDERLY$6,500
THE FENWICK FOUNDATION$5,000
ARLINGTON THRIVE$5,000
COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC$5,000
COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $5k → 7%COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE: $3k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $8k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $5k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $5k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $5k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$360k · 21 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$360k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+22%

Still filing today

86%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FF
    FOOD & FRIENDS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +139%
  • HC
    HOME CARE PARTNERS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +1%
  • ES
    Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +20%
  • TD
    THRIVE DC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +11%
  • JC
    JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF
    one grant, 2022 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
2
Partners in Care Maryland Inc

Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.

Philanthropy
3
Northwest Neighbors Village

Enable older adults to thrive as they age in our community by offering a robust network of resources and opportunities.

Human Services
4
Trinity House Apartments Inc

The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…

Human Services
5
Bridgewater Village Inc

Retirement housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Aberdeen Senior Housing Inc

The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve, and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…

Housing & Shelter
7
Washington Voa Living Center

Low-income housing.

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8
Fred Lind Manor

Fred lind manor provides housing and assisted living services to persons 55 and older.

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9
Clinton Area Care Center Inc

To help the elderly maintain their health and independence as long as possible.

Human Services
10
Richmond Residential Services Inc

Richmond residential services strives to provide person-centered care for individuals with diverse abilities and support needs, facilitating choice, growth and community participation

Human Services
11
Canterbury Tower Inc

The organization's mission is to provide housing, health care, and other personal services to elderly residents through the operation of a continuing care retirement community in tampa, florida.

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12
Cathedral Towers Inc

Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N Street Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Phillips Collection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr15%65%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr15%77%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
3,831/30,520

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY — $20,500 · OtherLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLYMEALS ON WHEELS OF TAKOMA PARK — $19,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF TAKOMA PARKN STREET VILLAGE INC — $19,500 · OtherN STREET VILLAGE INCWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA — $17,000 · OtherWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION…JUBILEE HOUSING INC — $15,000 · OtherJUBILEE HOUSING INCEASTER SEALS GREATER WASHINGTON — $12,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS GREATER WASHINGTONVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC — $12,000 · OtherVIDA SENIOR CENTER INCCAPITOL HILL VILLAGE EVENTS DC — $8,000 · OtherCAPITOL HILL VILLAGE EVENTS DCSENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA — $7,500 · OtherJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF — $6,000 · Other+1 more — $4,500 · OtherFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $40,500 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INCHOME CARE PARTNERS INC — $28,500 · HealthHOME CARE PARTNERS INCEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $21,000 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC M…+1 more — $3,000 · HealthSeabury Resources for Aging — $27,500 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources fo…Iona Senior Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesIona Senior ServicesCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY REACH OF M…FENWICK FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesFENWICK FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES TOGETHER…ARLINGTON THRIVE — $5,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON THRIVESARAH'S CIRCLE — $26,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLECULPEPPER GARDEN I INC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterCULPEPPER GARD…Fellowship Square Foundation — $9,500 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Squ…CLEVELAND PARK VILLAGE INC — $7,500 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionTHRIVE DC — $6,500 · Food & NutritionCommon Good City Farm — $5,000 · Food & NutritionARTS FOR THE AGING INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCFH Inc — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$141,500Health$93,000Human Services$76,000Housing & Shelter$53,000Food & Nutrition$26,000Arts & Culture$12,500Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $40,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOME CARE PARTNERS INC — $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging — $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY — $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCULPEPPER GARDEN I INC — $17,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIona Senior Services — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARTS FOR THE AGING INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCFH Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFellowship Square Foundation — $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFENWICK FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE DC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommon Good City Farm — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Philip L Graham Fund …The Morris and Gwendo…Ada L and Albert M Wi…Greater Washington Co…John Edward Fowler Me…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Cloudbreak Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Washington Home I…Joseph E & Marjorie B…
Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings CompanyVA30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Ada L and Albert M Wibel Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Cloudbreak Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Washington Home Inc · Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation

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 Lillian R Wardman Irr Tr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Prince George's County Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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