· 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 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.
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 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 +95% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 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 Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida 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 SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD SQUARE HOMELESS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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