Texas · Private foundation
The Ward Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $287k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations The Ward Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $287k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $262k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $326k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $270k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $248k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $232k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $230k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $247k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $191,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation | $120,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Baylor Health Care System | $59,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Dallas Architecture Forum | $55,500 | 7 | 8% |
| Uplift Education | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Frontline Healing Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Adaptive Training Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kershaw's Challenge | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ward Family 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Chive Charities · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ward Family Foundation
- How much does The Ward Family Foundation give?
- The Ward Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $287,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ward Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are The Ward Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Corporation ($205k), North Texas Food Bank ($191k), Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ($120k).
- Does The Ward Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ward Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ward Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is The Ward Family Foundation based?
- The Ward Family Foundation is based in TX.
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