· Private foundation
The Judith and Edward Ward 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CJD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CLARIDON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| OTTERBEIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $3,000 |
| MONASTERY OF POOR CLARES | $3,000 |
| PEGASUS FARM | $2,000 |
| JULIE BILLIART SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $2,000 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WOMENSAFE INC | $2,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +75% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +178%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +201%
- CFCROSSROADS FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CSCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLINDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +37%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
To provide safe and confidential transitional housing and services for homeless families.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Judith and Edward Ward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Judith and Edward Ward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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