Delaware · Private foundation
Way Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $272,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Way Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.1M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.1M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.3M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $842k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $789k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Area Council #220 Boy Scouts of America | $1,500,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Food Fix Campaign Inc | $1,125,000 | 5 | 13% |
| University of Delaware | $687,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc | $622,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Orchard Friends School | $603,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Homewood Living Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Hanover Public Library Association Inc | $431,000 | 4 | 43% |
| Gerstell Academy Inc | $217,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Hanover Pennsylvania | $200,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Pallet Foundation Inc | $174,250 | 7 | 15% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($487k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Way Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Way Foundation Inc
- How much does Way Foundation Inc give?
- Way Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Way Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Way Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Baltimore Area Council #220 Boy Scouts of America ($1.5M), Food Fix Campaign Inc ($1.1M), University of Delaware ($688k).
- Does Way Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Way Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Way Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include York County Community Foundation, Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation, Rice Family Foundation.
- Where is Way Foundation Inc based?
- Way Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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