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The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation at a glance

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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.

$705k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.2MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$998kHealth$960kFood & Nutrition$245kYouth Development$210kHousing & Shelter$170kEnvironment$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $545k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $60k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC: $55k → 16%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 15 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$2.7M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+69%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +46%
  • Philabundance
    6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +0%
  • CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • 1F
    1660 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4.2M · revenue -96% · 98% of their budget
  • TA
    TRUSTEES AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $425k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2019 · $400k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

1660 FOUNDATION INC: $4,230,393 · Philanthropy1660 FOUNDATION INCTRUSTEES AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $425,000 · OtherTRUSTEES AND FELLOWS OF HARV…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $400,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPO…UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIAFLEMING MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $375,000 · OtherFLEMING MUSEUM AT THE UNIVER…THE PHOENIX: $210,000 · OtherTHE PHOENIXIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $135,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE …SORPTIMIST: $115,000 · Other+3 more: $91,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $700,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $480,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VER…Gloucester Education Foundation Inc: $226,000 · EducationGloucester Educat…+2 more: $5,000 · EducationCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $215,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDeep Vellum Publishing Inc: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $13,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HOME: $170,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $220,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $90,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 · HealthGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $125,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$4,230,393Other$2,306,000Education$1,411,000Arts & Culture$343,000Human Services$265,000Food & Nutrition$245,000Health$150,000Science & Tech$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget1660 FOUNDATION INC: $4,230,393 over 1y, 98% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $480,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGloucester Education Foundation Inc: $226,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetPhilabundance: $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $215,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The William Penn FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Clara E and John H Ware Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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