· Public charity
Zeneth F Ward & Lanetta S Ward Fdn
To support christian churches and schools
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH INC DBA TURNING POINT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,479,963 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTHERN OREGON | $2,320,439 |
| THREE RIVERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $1,780,485 |
| THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF YACOLT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $1,739,981 |
| NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC | $1,718,879 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC | $1,294,546 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,159,523 |
| NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC | $566,538 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of your 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M went to new ones.
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
- NCNAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +1%
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $619k · revenue +23%
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $585k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SCSonshine Christian Schoolone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -44%
- AEACA EDUCATION SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -14%
- CCCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -51%
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.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
As a support to evangelical christian families, the mission of christian community school is to provide an academically excellent, biblically integrated education which promotes christ-like character, preparing students to serve god and…
Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.
New life christian school is dedicated to providing an education of excellence. the measure of success for students is not held purely in their considerable and notable academic achievements but rather as the school realizes its…
To educate all students to the highest levels of academic achievement in a Christ-centered environment. To provide student-centered educational programs that challenge all students to perform at their highest potential. To prepare all…
Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students
The school functions as an extension of Christian Home supporting parents who seek to obey the biblical instruction which give them the ultimate responsibility for the education of their children. They offer a curiculum of Christian…
Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nampa Christian Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Nazarene University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRACE CASCADE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (FORMERLY CASCADE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL) ↗
- Who funds FAITH BIBLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sonshine Christian School ↗
- Who funds ACA EDUCATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PAIDEIA CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zeneth F Ward & Lanetta S Ward Fdn 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.
- George Fox University — 3% 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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