· Private foundation
E P Woodruff Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BCYFR SUPPORTERS | $8,000 |
| LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY | $7,500 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - BROWNWOOD | $5,000 |
| ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| PEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY PR | $5,000 |
| ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| TEXAS RAMP PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| BANGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| CORINNE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY PRISON MINISTRY | $3,500 |
| BROOKESMITH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of E P Woodruff Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +269%
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +26%- TAThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- LKLATCH KEYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCORRINE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Provide Volunteer Fire Fighting Service To Rural Portions of Midland County, TX: Extinguish Grass Fires, Residential Fires, Farm Building Fires, And Rural Industrial Fires, Etc.
Hays County Brown Santa is dedicated to supporting families in need during the holiday season through acts of kindness, volunteerism, and community-ensuring families in Hays County feel remembered, cared for, and valued.
To provide nutrition and home essentials to low income families
The associations mission is to provide a free public library for the residents of brownwood and brown county, texas
Provide library services to a three county area in rural east texas.
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
To provide immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas.
Fire, medical and other emergency first responders servicing rural brooks county in south texas
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 44 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 LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BANGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOME MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BCYFR SUPPORTERS BROWN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BROWNWOOD ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: Central Texas Foundation Inc · Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust · B C and Gladys L Drinkard Foundation Inc · Harriett Gully Beadel Foundation Inc · Thomas B Shoemake Trust · The 1687 Foundation · Kelly Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization E P Woodruff Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E P Woodruff Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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