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Ward Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Sports | $26,000 |
| Boston Children's Hospital Trust | $26,000 |
| Jackson County Library Foundation | $15,000 |
| CureSearch L McGuire Legacy Fund | $13,000 |
| Ashland Community Food Bank | $10,793 |
| Camp One Step | $10,000 |
| Camp Sunshine | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Luke McGuire Memorial Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Caring Unlimited | $10,000 |
| Camp Sunshine | $10,000 |
| Luke McGuire Memorial Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Camp Ta-Kum-Ta | $10,000 |
| Luke McGuire Memorial Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Blossburg Memorial Library | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 26 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +17%
- BMBLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +35%
- SSPOONFULS4× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL VI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $50k
- BABlossburg Area Swim Assocone grant, 2023 · $50k
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +12%
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.
Children's services
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blossburg Firemen's Ambulance Assoc. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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 72 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 VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds Sacopee Valley Health Center ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds STILLBRAVE CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds CARING UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TEPEYAC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC 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: Usg Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.