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Ware Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE HOPE REFUGE | $50,000 |
| MADISON RIDGELAND ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WOMENS SOURCE | $50,000 |
| ST DOMINIC HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| SOLDIER FUND | $37,615 |
| THE CHRISTIAN FILM AND TELEVISION | $25,000 |
| REAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CHILDLINE | $25,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| GAINESVILLE TOUCHDOWN CLUB | $22,500 |
| RUSTY WRIGHT COMMUNICATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 17 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k 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
- MCMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY5× · 2017–2022 · $575k · revenue +50%
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2017–2021 · $480k · revenue +15%- GNGOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $340k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BUBARRY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKone grant, 2017 · $185k
- FFFIU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $155k
- MCMIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…
Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
The mission at atlanta international school is to develop courageous leaders who shape their world for the better. at our core is creating a joy of learning and purposeful effort, and mutual respect and understanding, in an inclusive and…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
King's Ridge Christian School is a Christian community providing a college preparatory education equipping students to know, to serve, and to believe.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's School and the most unlike its peers is Soldier Fund. 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 30 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 115 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 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDEJAPA INC ↗
- Who funds youthSpark Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Hope Refuge Inc ↗
- Who funds Rusty Wright Communications ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CJPAWS 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: Roy C Moore Foundation · Ralph & Mary Cleveland Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Ware Foundation Inc 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.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Care Elementary School Inc — 8% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.
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