· Public charity
Zeneth F Ward & Lanetta S Ward Fdn
To support christian churches and schools
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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.
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zeneth F Ward & Lanetta S Ward Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zeneth F Ward & Lanetta S Ward Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- George Fox University: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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