· Private foundation
Charles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of CHARLES O WOOD III & MIRIAM M WOOD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $75,000 |
| ALL FAITH FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $10,000 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATER | $10,000 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $5,900 |
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| URBANITE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $5,000 |
| WUSF PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,500 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +95% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +101%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +150%- ATASOLO THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +25%
Funded once
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +28%- SFSARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -50%
- CCCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +34%
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.
To create and sustain a vibrant performing arts center, advance education, and enrich communities by inspiring minds through the power of the arts.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds URBANITE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD SQUARE HOMELESS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Louis Foundation · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Ploughshares 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 Charles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation 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.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% 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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