Ohio · Private foundation
Ward Beecher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Ward Beecher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $265k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $230k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $226k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $265k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $220k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $169k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $234k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $237k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youngstown State University Foundation | $355,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation | $185,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Oh Wow the Roger & Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science & Tech | $150,000 | 3 | 6% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tam High Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 2% |
| California Jazz Conservatory Inc | $52,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Youngstown Symphony Society | $50,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of San Antonio | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Turnout Activism Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Youngstown Edison Business Incubator | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($560k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ward Beecher 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: Florence S Beecher Fdn · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · John D Finnegan Fdn · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Schwebel Family Foundation · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Neckerman William M Jr Charitable · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
About Ward Beecher Foundation
- How much does Ward Beecher Foundation give?
- Ward Beecher Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $268,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ward Beecher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (15%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are Ward Beecher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youngstown State University Foundation ($355k), Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation ($185k), Oh Wow the Roger & Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science & Tech ($150k).
- Does Ward Beecher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ward Beecher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ward Beecher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Florence S Beecher Fdn, Youngstown Fdn General, Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley.
- Where is Ward Beecher Foundation based?
- Ward Beecher Foundation is based in OH.
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