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Wardle Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $465k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $890k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEARY FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $170,000 |
| GIBSON WARDLE FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $170,000 |
| WILLIAM & NANCY WARDLE FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $170,000 |
| K AND D WARDLE BLESSINGS FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $170,000 |
| INDIAN VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $60,000 |
| GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL TREASURES OF IREDELL COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF BUCKS AND HUNTERDON COUNTIES | $40,000 |
| WATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS & AFRICA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AMIKIDS BEAUFORT | $25,000 |
| EL PORVENIR | $25,000 |
| BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $548k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Wardle Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONS6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +28%
- GVGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +172%
- YOYMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- WWATERLINESone grant, 2019 · $25k
- 2T2R3 TREASURE HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +50%
- LALIVE ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
The young men's christian association of southern west virginia, inc.'s mission is to advance our cause of strenthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. the ymca is a powerful association of…
To build a healthy spirit, mind and body through programs which promote good health, strong families, youth leadership and community development.
Providing recreational activities without regard to race, religion, or socio-economic status
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body. at the y, strengthening community is our cause. we believe that positive, lasting personal change can only come about when we all work…
To provide a world-class experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and…
The family ymca of fayette county offers various programs provided to promote christian values, health enhancement, family enrichment, and leadership development in youth and adults.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To put christian principles into practice that promote good health, strong families, youth leadership and community development.
Boys & girls clubs of middle tennessee's ("bgcmt") mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. in essence, we seek to save and…
Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is 2R3 Treasure House. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 46 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Special Treasures of Iredell County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NICA NADADORES INC ↗
- Who funds WATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MHY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WATERLINES ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds 2R3 TREASURE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PROMISE 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: Manning Family Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Rimora Foundation · The Better Living Foundation · Sentara Health · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · The J & E Berkley 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 Wardle Family 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.
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.