· Private foundation
Ward Creek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $104,180 |
| REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC | $60,326 |
| JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION | $50,066 |
| CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION INC | $49,156 |
| COMMON GOOD AI INC | $30,263 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $25,142 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE | $19,865 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF FOUNDATION | $10,084 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM | $10,084 |
| THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM | $10,084 |
| THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER INC | $9,941 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $9,896 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $9,630 |
| SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES | $5,109 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH6× · 2020–2025 · $417k · revenue +16%
- RWReporters Without Borders Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +103%
- TLTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- AMAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $26k
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +158%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Press Club Journalism Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Verge Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS ↗
- Who funds OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Writing Downtown Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gannett Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Craig Newmark Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ward Creek Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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