· Private foundation
The Clara E and John H Ware Jr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF THE DEAF | $70,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $50,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $50,000 |
| THE PHOENIX MULTISPORT | $40,000 |
| SORPTIMIST | $35,000 |
| GLOUCESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHING | $25,000 |
| THEATRE EXILE | $20,000 |
| ENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD FISHING HERITAGE CENTER | $3,000 |
| HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Gloucester Education Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +46%
Philabundance6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +0%
CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- 1F1660 FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $4.2M · revenue -96% · 98% of their budget
- TATRUSTEES AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $425k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2019 · $400k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is 1660 Foundation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds 1660 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Deep Vellum Publishing Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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.
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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 The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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