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Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$742k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
46
Grants FY2025
48
Organizations funded FY2024
92%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
42 to 52
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 92% of the organizations Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $617k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving45$717k13%
FY202448$662k92%
FY202242$507k10%
FY202146$483k26%
FY201952$502kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$483kHuman Services$452kHealth$429kReligion$233kYouth Development$206kArts & Culture$192kPhilanthropy$158kEnvironment$135kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 88 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYew Dell Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNew Life Directions Ministries Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarole's Kitchen Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCatholic Education Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCreasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBellarmine University Incorporated: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWings of Refuge Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetQueen's Daughters Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSecond Hope Ministeries Corporation: $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCure Cf Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetNativity Academy at Saint Boniface: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetStormhaven Youth Ranch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWorkwell Industries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt John Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCasa of the River Region: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCedar Lake Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouse of Ruth Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUpside Therapeutic Riding Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetOpen Door of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Prisoners Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLighthouse Promise Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRadio Eye Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable FoundationKY39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

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.

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About Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc

How much does Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc give?
Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $742,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (10%), Human Services (10%), Health (9%).
Who are Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc ($60k), Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc ($55k), Yew Dell Inc ($50k).
Does Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation, Cralle Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
Where is Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc based?
Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 119 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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