· Private foundation
The Wardell Family Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF MONMOUTH COUNTY | $20,375 |
| COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY | $11,250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $7,500 |
| UNIV OF PA CCC | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS | $3,010 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $3,000 |
| YSPANIOLA | $2,750 |
| 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND | $2,500 |
| VIN GOPAL CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| ACLU | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY | $2,500 |
| LUNCHBREAK | $2,250 |
| PARKER HEALTH | $2,250 |
| FULFILL FOODBANK | $2,005 |
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 (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 30 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +37%
- YIYSPANIOLA INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +81%
LUNCH BREAK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH EMETHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SASt Anthony 1907 Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue ×29
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $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.
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How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 126 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 COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds YSPANIOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds ST GREGORY'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Vin Gopal Civic Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds St Anthony 1907 Foundation ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WRITE NOW INC ↗
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: New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Gravina Family Foundation Inc · Torcivia Family Foundation · Jules L Plangere Jr Fam Fdn Inc · The Stone Foundation of New Jersey · The Amboy Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wardell Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wardell Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 180 Turning Lives Around: 61% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 14% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc: 9% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
- Project Write Now Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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