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The 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| KIPP METRO ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| HONDURAS AGALTA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (HAVE) | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE (VIM) CLINIC | $10,000 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $8,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $7,500 |
| DEEP WELL PROJECT HILTON HEAD | $7,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $5,000 |
| LOW COUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE LOW COUNTRY | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Ward Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 44%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC7× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +59%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +177%
- MMMEMORY MATTERS7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HILTON HEAD ISLANDone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…
The caswell county partnership for children unites the community to provide families with resources and services to enable all children to reach their fullest potential.
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
How this is measured
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 36 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 THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds THE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DBWPC INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Wexford Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · The Bargain Box · Heritage Classic Foundation · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Ekedahl Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dbwpc Inc: 10% of income from government
- Kipp Jacksonville Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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