· Private foundation
Ward Family Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GHS VOLLEYBALL BOOSTER CLUB | $70,075 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL FDTN | $41,250 |
| SETON CENTER | $41,250 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL FDTN | $2,525 |
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 (FY22–22, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSeton Center Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $42k · revenue +27%
- DCDonnelly College5× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +166%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $650 · revenue +13%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS MORE PARISHone grant, 2017 · $4k
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +3%
- CWCHRIS WARD MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $750
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Inspired by the gospel of the beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…
St. patrick center transforms lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 31 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 Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEAP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES CONNECTIONS FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Greater Horizons · Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey Foundation Inc · The McGee Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Kelly Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ward Family Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ward Family Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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