How much did WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION grant in FY2023?

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION reported 30 grants totaling $1,338,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION based?

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is based in CA.

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (wedc) was incorporated on november 12, 1987 pursuant to the general nonprofit corporation law of the state of california.

$1.3M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$75k

Largest

01What you fund

0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2023.

Human Services$795kEducation$511kCommunity Improvement$485kHealth$463kEmployment$300kArts & Culture$188kHousing & Shelter$185kYouth Development$175kCrime & Legal$125kOther$790k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

supportivesouthshelterartsmarginalizedtraumaenvironment

2023

youngblack womenafricanwomen girlstennishighestaddress

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k16 grants · $344k
$50k–250k14 grants · $995k

$45,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS$75,000
SANCTUARY OF HOPE$75,000
TELEHEALTH VAN$75,000
THE AMAAD INSTITUTE$75,000
BUTTERFLY'S HAVEN$75,000
STEM TO THE FUTURE$75,000
BLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER$75,000
THE RIGHTWAY FOUNDATION$75,000
2ND CALL$75,000
CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT$75,000
WESTMOUNT COUNCILING CENTER$75,000
THE REVERENCE PROJECT$70,000
MOTHER'S IN ACTION$50,000
NEW DIRECTION COMMUNITY PROGRAM$50,000
NOAH'S FOUNDATION INC$45,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$790k · 7 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +299% since the first grant, against +120% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$790k

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+299%

+120%

Still filing today

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $944k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

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STEM TO THE FUTURE
2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +1649%
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THE AMAAD INSTITUTE
2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +241%
WC
WESTMOUNT COUNCILING CENTER
2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +838%

Funded once

LA
LOS ANGELES CITY COUNSEL DISTRICT 8 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES GRANT
one grant, 2022 · $175k
LA
LOS ANGELES BLACK WORKER CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +260%
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BABY (BROTHERS AGAINST BANGING YOUTH)
one grant, 2022 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Trauma Informed La

Civil Rights

Western Avenue Community Action Inc

Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.

Community Improvement

The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services

Hollywood 4WRD

Hollywood 4WRD is a coalition driven to create systemic change to effectively address homelessness in Hollywood through advocacy, education, service coordination, and innovation

Community Improvement

Los Angeles County African American

Assist members pursuit of advancement

Education

Latino Resource Organization

Westside Los Angeles nonprofit organization dedicated to provide a continuum of core services designed to assist very-low, and low income families successfully attain socio-economic resources and youth services that target increasing…

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Black Skeptics Los Angeles

Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) is a South Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting and supporting Black and BIPOC secular communities and individuals, with an emphasis on providing educational programming, arts education,…

Civil Rights

California Urban Partnership

The California Urban Partnership builds economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action.

Community Improvement

Los Angeles African American Womens

To contribute and lead in the development of African-American women leaders who will impact communities through social, civic and public engagement.

Public Benefit

Westla Homeless

WesttLA Homeless employs a caseworker organization and recruits volunteers to assist the homeless persons to make use of city and county services for housing, healthcare, addiction services, legal services as well as provides clothing,…

Human Services

La Blueprint

Science & Tech

Urban Peace Movement

Urban Peace Movement (UPM) launched in 2009 with a mission to build youth leadership in Oakland and Alameda Counties to transform the social conditions that drive violence and mass incarceration, issues that disproportionately impact BIPOC…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Club of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is New Direction Community Programs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/66

the rest of the field

13%

6,640/49,750

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.

05the grantee network

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/58

Grantees still filing

48/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$795,000Other$1,274,750Education$511,000Community Improvement$485,000Health$463,000Employment$300,000Arts & Culture$187,500

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA38.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · United Way Inc · Weingart Foundation · Christ-Centered Ministries · Liberty Hill Foundation · Community Partners · Southern California Grantmakers · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Social Justice Partners Los Angeles

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 organisation WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOLA COMMUNITY PEACE CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371945764 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOLA COMMUNITY PEACE CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ward Economic Development Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Ward Economic Development Corporation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ward Economic Development Corporation?

More from the funding graph

WARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ward Economic Development Corporation?

More from the funding graph