· Private foundation
Way Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $888k
- $250k+1 grant · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC | $272,500 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC | $125,000 |
| SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC | $100,000 |
| ORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP | $70,000 |
| TRAINING LEADERS THROUGH ATHLETICS INC | $67,500 |
| FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC | $65,000 |
| THE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA | $57,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $52,500 |
| NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION | $50,500 |
| RODALE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| HANOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC | $41,000 |
| GERSTELL ACADEMY INC | $40,000 |
| PALLET FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE5× · 2018–2024 · $688k · revenue +29%- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $623k · revenue +73%
- OFORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $603k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- HLHOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +142%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERYone grant, 2021 · $132k · revenue -100% · 91% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERYone grant, 2020 · $101k
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.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wyoming seminary inspires students to lead lives of integrity, purpose, and excellence by developing the critical skills and spirit of community necessary to succeed and serve in a global society.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Semper Fido Inc. 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 31 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 59 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 BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GERSTELL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Pallet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FIDO INC ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds USA BOBSLEDSKELETON INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRAINING LEADERS THROUGH ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHASING THE RAINBOWS ↗
- Who funds NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #544 ↗
- Who funds HART CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOAR PHILADELPHIA CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
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: York County Community Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · The Arlene Utz Hollinger Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · JHC Foundation · United Way of York County · Adams County Community Foundation Inc · Community Aid Inc · York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc · Rutters Childrens Charities Inc · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter 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 Way 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.
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