Ward Economic Development Corporation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4206960. Reported 73 grants totalling $4,016,250 to 66 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 4% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 16% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $174,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles City Counsel District 8 Community Activities Grant | Los Angeles, CA | $174,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rightway Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| STEM to the Future | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Amaad Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westmount Counciling Center | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mothers-in-Action Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 2ND Call | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Al Wooten JR Youth Center | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethel La Community Development Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Women for Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridge Builders Foundation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brothers Against Banging Youth | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Butterflys Haven | Beverly Hills, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Butterflys Haven | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California Black Womens Health Project | Inglewood, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crete Academy | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gailen & Cathy Reevers Center for Community Empowerment Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healing Circle La | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Black Worker Center | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Men Taking Over Reforming Society Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Peacemakers Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sanctuary of Hope | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| She Ready Foundation | Burbank, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sistahfriends Women's Counseling and Eldercare Management | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Telehealth Van | Playa Del Rey, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Education Program Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unite a Nation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Angeles Community Development Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Reverence Project | Los Angeles, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Literature Initiative | Los Angeles, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 24TH Street Theatre Company | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Step to Freedom | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advocates for Peace and Urban Unity | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Business Association of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girls Club of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ndica | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Direction Community Programs | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Arms Food Pantry & Resource Center | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sola Community Peace Center | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South La Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tenemos Que Reclamar Y Unidos Salvar La Tierra-South La | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| White Hall Arts Academy Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Noahs Foundation Inc | Long Beach, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blackstar Organization | Inglewood, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jazz Stepping Stones | Oceanside, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Restoration Community Development Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kindred Center | Los Angeles, CA | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Photographer S Union | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project 43 Team Post Centers | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our Little Helpers Inc | View Park, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Asset Development Re-Defining Education | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Reflections Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Its Bigger Than US | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pete Brown Junior Tennis Program | Tarzana, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Urban League | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Back to the Basics Community Empowerment | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Writers on Tour | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hurting and Hungry Charity | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kause | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parents Educators-Teachers & Students in Action | Granada Hills, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Authors Study Club of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Voices of Literacy - Uvol | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
7 of 66 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 60 of 66 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 43 | $2,677,750 | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $1,338,500 | $40,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ward Economic Development Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1177 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007.
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