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North Carolina · Public charity

Wards Foundation

Working to advance rate disease support to improve the lives of people affected by rare diseases.

$229k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$198k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$198,090
Largest grant, FY2025
$198,090
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wards Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$198k0%
FY20241$57k0%
FY20231$153kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$408k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Atrium Health Foundation$407,88530%

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About Wards Foundation

How much does Wards Foundation give?
Wards Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $198,090, out of $229,122 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Wards Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Wards Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Atrium Health Foundation ($408k).
Does Wards Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Wards Foundation based?
Wards Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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