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Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr at a glance

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Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$195kFood & Nutrition$122kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$52kPublic Benefit$33kHousing & Shelter$28kPhilanthropy$26kAnimals$22k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORS IN NEED$25,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA$12,000
PROJECT HOME AGAIN$10,000
THE WISH PROJECT INC$10,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK$9,000
LAZARUS HOUSE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $50k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY: $3k → 16%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $50k → 10%MSPCA-ANGELL (MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM): $10k → 16%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $40k → 10%MSPCA-ANGELL: $7k → 16%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $40k → 10%MSPCA-ANGELL (MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM): $5k → 16%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $20k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $15k → 10%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $15k → 10%BREAD AND ROSES INC: $12k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK: $9k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 10%BREAD AND ROSES INC: $5k → 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA: $15k → 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA: $12k → 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA: $12k → 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 10%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN: $15k → 10%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN: $5k → 10%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN: $5k → 10%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $25k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $25k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $15k → 10%LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $15k → 10%LAWRENCE BOYS CLUB: $10k → 10%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 10%PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $10k → 10%LAWRENCE BOYS CLUB: $8k → 10%PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $10k → 10%LAZARUS HOUSE: $8k → 10%PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $6k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $5k → 10%LAZARUS HOUSE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$506k · 10 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +190% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$506k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+190%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +492%
  • NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +996%
  • MV
    MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.

Human Services
3
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry Inc

Provide emergency food and financial assistance to needy families.

Human Services
4
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
5
Human Needs Food Pantry Inc

To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county

Human Services
6
Household Goods Inc

Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.

Human Services
7
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
8
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.

Housing & Shelter
9
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
10
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Worcester Animal Rescue League Inc

Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.

Animals
12
Pace Community Housing Corporation

To provide safe and sanitary cost-effective housing and access to nutritious food to persons and families of low and moderate income in the greater new bedford massachusetts area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lazarus House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Neighbors in Need Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $195,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INCNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $105,000 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS IN NEED INCBREAD & ROSES INC: $17,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD & ROSES INCTHE WISH PROJECT: $25,500 · OtherTHE WISH PROJECTFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK: $19,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICES O…LAWRENCE BOYS CLUB: $17,500 · OtherLAWRENCE BOYS CLU…MSPCA-ANGELL (MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM): $15,250 · OtherMSPCA-ANGELL (MSP…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMAN…+1 more: $2,500 · OtherMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $59,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERRIMACK VALL…LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS …PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $30,500 · Public BenefitESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,000 · Animals
Education$195,000Food & Nutrition$122,000Other$84,750Youth Development$74,000Public Benefit$30,500Philanthropy$26,000Housing & Shelter$22,500Animals$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $195,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $105,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $59,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME AGAIN: $30,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $25,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $17,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Cornelius a & Muriel …Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Artemas W Stearns Tru…Josephine G Russell T…Rogers Family Foundat…We Share A Common Thr…Salem Five Charitable…Essex County Communit…Arbella Insurance Fou…The Saab Family Found…The Pfizer Foundation…
Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood TuaTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Josephine G Russell Trust · Rogers Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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