How much does Ward Foundation give?

Ward Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $252,293 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ward Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (30%), Recreation & Sports (11%).

Who are Ward Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta ($90k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($51k), St Paul VI Catholic High School ($50k).

Does Ward Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ward Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Usg Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Good Heart Work Smart Foundation.

Where is Ward Foundation based?

Ward Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

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.

$252k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 12%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $26,000
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 33; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $3.3M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Ward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$252k	22%
FY2024	26	$172k	12%
FY2023	30	$238k	27%
FY2022	29	$204k	34%
FY2021	27	$174k	7%
FY2020	29	$201k	10%
FY2019	29	$203k	10%
FY2018	33	$196k	15%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$554kEducation$541kRecreation & Sports$203kHuman Services$108kFood & Nutrition$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$44kReligion$36kHousing & Shelter$34kOther$0

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
Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta	$90,000	9	1%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$51,000	2	0%
St Paul VI Catholic High School	$50,000	1	n/a
Blossburg Memorial Library	$47,300	9	5%
Spoonfuls	$44,000	4	0%
Sacopee Valley Health Center	$30,000	6	0%
Health Care Without Walls Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Stillbrave Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc	$29,753	2	7%
Beyond Hunger	$28,000	9	0%

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All grantees of Ward Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta	$90,000	9	1%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$51,000	2	0%
St Paul VI Catholic High School	$50,000	1	n/a
Blossburg Memorial Library	$47,300	9	5%
Spoonfuls	$44,000	4	0%
Sacopee Valley Health Center	$30,000	6	0%
Health Care Without Walls Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Stillbrave Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc	$29,753	2	7%
Beyond Hunger	$28,000	9	0%
Good Sports Inc	$26,000	1	0%
Childrens Oncology Services Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Caring Unlimited	$20,000	2	0%
Harbor Camps Inc	$20,000	2	1%
K9s for Warriors Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Misericordia Foundation	$17,000	4	0%
Some Inc	$17,000	9	0%
Jackson County Library Foundation	$15,000	1	3%
Centro Tepeyac Inc	$14,500	9	1%
The Mercy Health Clinic Inc	$13,500	9	0%
Fenwick High School	$10,500	5	n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Camp Can Do 2014 Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc	$7,650	1	0%
A Wider Circle Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Serve and Return Chicago	$7,000	3	5%
Friendship Place	$7,000	4	0%
Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S	$6,500	3	0%
St Matthews House Inc	$4,500	4	0%
Illinois Spina Bifida Association	$4,000	5	0%
Sarah's Inn	$2,500	3	0%
Barrett Economic Development Corporation	$2,000	1	n/a
Blossburg Firemen's Ambulance Assoc	$2,000	1	1%
St Luke Parish & School	$1,800	2	n/a
PURA Syndrome Foundation	$1,500	2	2%
Naples Zoo Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ward Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Usg Foundation IncIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ward Foundation

How much does Ward Foundation give?: Ward Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $252,293 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ward Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (30%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Ward Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta ($90k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($51k), St Paul VI Catholic High School ($50k).
Does Ward Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ward Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Usg Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Good Heart Work Smart Foundation.
Where is Ward Foundation based?: Ward Foundation is based in PA.