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Garland E Wood Foundation at a glance

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Garland E 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$53kScience & Tech$35kEducation$16kHealth$10kCivil Rights$5kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$784k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Edge Institute Inc$30,000
THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD$15,000
The Hpv and Anal Cancer Foundation$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SEE LIST ATTACHED: $39k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $3k → 20%Edge Institute Inc: $30k → 10%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FDN: $3k → 14%Adventureland Institute Inc: $5k → 15%THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%Weston Education Foundation Inc: $500 → 9%Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc: $2k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%SEE LIST ATTACHED: $38k → 17%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $2k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS: $1k → 9%SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity): $5k → 17%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS: $500 → 9%SEE LIST ATTACHED: $52k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CT
KS
DC
TX
FL
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 4 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$60k
$38k

Still filing today

0%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Science & TechHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $47k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k

Funded once

  • ES
    EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • AI
    ADVENTURELAND INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • S(
    SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)
    one grant, 2024 · $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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
4
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
9
Breastcancerorg

Our mission is to help people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

Health
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Breast Cancer Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Edible Schoolyard New York. 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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $47,000 · OtherTHE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARDTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYSEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity): $5,000 · OtherSEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)INGRESSIVE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherINGRESSIVE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION+5 more: $8,300 · Other+5 moreEdge Institute Inc: $30,000 · Science & TechEdge Institute IncADVENTURELAND INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Science & TechADVENTURELAND INSTITUTE INCEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $10,000 · EducationTHE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $3,337 · Housing & ShelterGORDON PARKS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LACHAT INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$75,300Science & Tech$35,000Education$10,000Health$6,500Housing & Shelter$3,337Arts & Culture$1,500Food & Nutrition$500

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 budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVENTURELAND INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $3,337 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LACHAT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Garland E Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garland E Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–25%
    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 17 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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