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Doris Woolsey Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
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.

Animals$137kHealth$67kReligion$60kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,183
Median grant
1
States reached
$447k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRUNE HEIDI FARM INC$9,183
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$9,183
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$9,183
Individual grant recipient$9,183
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VERO BEACH DOG PARK: $7k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $9k → 13%GRUNE HEIDI FARM INC: $9k → 16%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $9k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 13%GRUNE HEIDI FARM INC: $8k → 16%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $8k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $7k → 13%GRUNE HEIDI FARM INC: $7k → 16%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $8k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $7k → 13%GRUNE HEIDI FARM INC: $7k → 16%HALO RESCUE: $8k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $6k → 13%GRUNE HEIDI FARM RESCUE: $2k → 16%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $7k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $6k → 13%HALO RESCUE: $7k → 12%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $6k → 12%HELPING ANIMALS LIVE: $6k → 12%HALO RESCUE: $6k → 12%HOMELESS FAMILY SHELTER OF VERO: $5k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $8k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $7k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $5k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $3k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF IRC: $2k → 12%INDIAN RIVER HEALTHY START COALITION: $2k → 12%INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%FLORIDA BAPTIST RETIREMENT CENTER: $1k → 12%TCCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%ALZHEIMERS AND PARKINSON ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%FLORIDA RESCUE RANCH: $14k → 12%FLORIDA RESCUE RANCH: $10k → 12%FLORIDA RESCUE RANCH: $7k → 12%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 7 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$251k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-50%
+35%

Still filing today

43%
33%

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
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue -83%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k

Funded once

  • VB
    VERO BEACH DOG PARK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    HOMELESS FAMILY SHELTER OF VERO
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GH
    GRUNE HEIDI FARM RESCUE
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $44,696 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $44,696 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHALO RESCUE: $20,000 · OtherHALO RESCUEFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $15,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VERO BEACHHOMELESS FAMILY SHELTER OF VERO: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,250 · OtherGrune Heidi Farm Inc: $31,912 · AnimalsGrune Heidi Farm IncFLORIDA RESCUE RANCH INC: $31,185 · AnimalsFLORIDA RESCUE RANCH INCVERO BEACH DOG PARK INC: $7,000 · AnimalsVERO BEACH DOG PARK INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $63,196 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+1 more: $2,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$137,142Animals$70,097Health$65,196Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $63,196 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGrune Heidi Farm Inc: $31,912 over 4y, 14% of budgetFLORIDA RESCUE RANCH INC: $31,185 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Grune Heidi Farm Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH DOG PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Doris Woolsey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris Woolsey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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