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Way Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$273k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.7MYouth Development$1.8MHuman Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$781kRecreation & Sports$385kHealth$280kScience & Tech$174kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $888k
  • $250k+1 grant · $273k
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW LIFE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND MOTHERS INC: $8k → 9%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50k → 14%HOMEWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 12%BRETHREN HOME COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY: $66k → 22%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY: $66k → 22%FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $65k → 9%SEMPER FIDO: $25k → 7%SEMPER FIDO: $25k → 7%SEMPER FIDO: $25k → 7%SEMPER FIDO: $25k → 7%SEMPER FIDO: $25k → 7%FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $40k → 9%FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $40k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $50k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $25k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $25k → 9%CHASING THE RAINBOWS: $25k → 9%HOUSE OF HOPE YORK PA: $10k → 9%CHASING THE RAINBOWS: $25k → 9%HOUSE OF HOPE YORK PA: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
KS
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 34 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
19

Total granted

$7.4M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 DELAWARE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $688k · revenue +29%
  • CR
    CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $623k · revenue +73%
  • OF
    ORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $603k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • HL
    HOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +142%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY
    one grant, 2021 · $132k · revenue -100% · 91% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY
    one grant, 2020 · $101k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
York College of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Wilmington University Inc

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…

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

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…

—
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School

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.

Education
10
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

—
11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $687,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREHANOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $431,000 · OtherHANOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATI…NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY (NCFFR): $101,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherHANOVER AREA YMCA: $95,000 · OtherCOLLEGE SETTLEMEMT: $90,000 · OtherUSA BOBSLEDSKELETON INC: $90,000 · OtherThe Pallet Foundation Inc: $174,250 · OtherThe Pallet Foundation IncEICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $160,000 · OtherEICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CEN…THE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $107,000 · Other+18 more: $525,260 · Other+18 moreCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $622,500 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDAT…ORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL: $603,000 · EducationORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOO…GERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $217,500 · EducationGERSTELL ACADEMY INCRochester Institute of Technology: $150,000 · EducationRochester Institute o…VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $96,760 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDAT…+2 more: $20,000 · EducationBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE AREA COUNCI…TRAINING LEADERS THROUGH ATHLETICS INC: $87,500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $78,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC: $1,125,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FIX CAMPAI…Rodale Institute: $120,000 · Food & NutritionRodale Institut…HOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWOOD LIVING…FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesFOR THE LOVE OF…NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY: $131,668 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER…SEMPER FIDO INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesSEMPER FIDO INCACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $100,000 · Human ServicesACCOUNTABILITY …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR…CHASING THE RAINBOWS: $50,000 · Human Services+4 more: $43,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA: $200,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC: $100,000 · HealthMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $75,000 · HealthWOAR PHILADELPHIA CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $30,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · Health
Other$2,561,260Education$1,709,760Youth Development$1,683,500Food & Nutrition$1,245,000Human Services$1,184,668Environment$285,000Health$220,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetFOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC: $1,125,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $687,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $622,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL: $603,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetHOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHANOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $431,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetGERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $217,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA: $200,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetThe Pallet Foundation Inc: $174,250 over 7y, 15% of budgetEICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $160,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $145,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY: $131,668 over 1y, 91% of budgetSEMPER FIDO INC: $125,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetRodale Institute: $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $107,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $100,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $96,760 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER AREA YMCA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA BOBSLEDSKELETON INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTRAINING LEADERS THROUGH ATHLETICS INC: $87,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetHANOVER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $78,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING USA INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHASING THE RAINBOWS: $50,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetNEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #544: $39,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHART CENTER: $37,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOAR PHILADELPHIA CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE YORK PA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOCEANA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK ADAMS COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT GROVE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE C: $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetFriends of the Library of Collier County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BRETHREN HOME COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND MOTHERS: $8,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

York County Community…Airie Knipel Harry V …Rice Family FoundationThe Arlene Utz Hollin…Memorial Health FundJHC FoundationUnited Way of York Co…Adams County Communit…Community Aid IncYork County Conventio…Rutters Childrens Cha…The Arthur J and Lee …
York County Community FoundationPA36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Way Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Way Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Way Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Way Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home