· Private foundation
The Blaine and Loren Ward Charitable Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROMISE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY | $27,824 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINIOS | $25,000 |
| STEPPING STONE ANIMAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| WILSON COLLEGE | $21,809 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MORGAN CO WV | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF FREDERICK | $20,000 |
| GIVE PURRS A CHANCE | $20,000 |
| WHISKERS INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FELINES AND FERALS | $20,000 |
| HART FOR ANIMALS INC | $17,000 |
| CACAPON TNR INC | $16,000 |
| WV MOUNTAINCARS CAT RESCUE | $15,000 |
| SAFE SHELTER INC | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWHISKERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +15% · 29% of their budget
- GPGIVE PURRS A CHANCE3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +18%
- FOFRIENDS OF FELINES AND FERALS3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- ITINTO THE WILD CAT RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HOHOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -53%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
Provide spay and neuter services for pets
Very small operation, we do T/N/R in the local area
Animal shelter and rescue
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
Shelter & loving care for strays
Provide free tnr for feral cats low cost spayneuter for pets
For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Rescue and rehome abandoned cats and kittens.
Animal rescue dedicated to saving the lives of all dogs and cats. staffed only by volunteers and rely on contributions and adoption fees all animals are fostered in homes and allows us to find suitable h
Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE ANIMAL SOCIETY LLC ↗
- Who funds WHISKERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE PURRS A CHANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FELINES AND FERALS ↗
- Who funds CACAPON TNR ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HART FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Bedford County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blaine and Loren Ward Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blaine and Loren Ward Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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