Texas · Private foundation
The a Montgomery Ward Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $683k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The a Montgomery Ward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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 | 56 | $683k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $673k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $756k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $650k | 51% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $695k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $661k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc | $341,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Wings Program Inc | $157,961 | 5 | 0% |
| Helping Hand Center | $141,152 | 4 | 0% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Avenues to Independence | $70,689 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity High School | $51,403 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Support Services Inc | $50,520 | 3 | 0% |
| Regina Dominican High School | $50,169 | 2 | n/a |
| Mercy Housing Lakefront | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($677k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The a Montgomery 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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Dr Scholl Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History
How this is measured
About The a Montgomery Ward Foundation
- How much does The a Montgomery Ward Foundation give?
- The a Montgomery Ward Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $683,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The a Montgomery Ward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Health (21%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The a Montgomery Ward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ($341k), Wings Program Inc ($158k), Helping Hand Center ($141k).
- Does The a Montgomery Ward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The a Montgomery Ward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The a Montgomery Ward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Helen V Brach Foundation.
- Where is The a Montgomery Ward Foundation based?
- The a Montgomery Ward Foundation is based in TX.
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