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Greenwood 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.

$600k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$455kHealth$310kPhilanthropy$310kEducation$175kReligion$100kYouth Development$100kRecreation & Sports$18k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$250,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$200,000
YOUNG AND HEALTHY$100,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$30,000
THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$10,000
PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAVE THE REDWOODS: $100k → 10%THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $750k → 14%UNITED STATES OLMYPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $18k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $50k → 11%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $200k → 17%THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $250k → 14%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $100k → 17%SAN MARINO COMMUNITY CHURCH: $100k → 14%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $30k → 17%HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $75k → 14%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 14%THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%THE HUNGTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 14%STUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $100k → 14%POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $125k → 14%YOUNG AND HEALTHY: $100k → 14%KIDSPACE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $100k → 14%YOUNG AND HEALTHY: $100k → 14%PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%YOUNG AND HEALTHY: $100k → 14%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 3 repeat orgs$903k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
  • NO
    NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $355k · revenue -4%
  • YH
    YOUNG & HEALTHY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
2
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
4
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
5
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
8
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Crestview Preparatory School

We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…

Education
12
Vistamar School

Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Polytechnic School; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,094,676 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUMSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $300,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DON…Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…SAN MARINO COMMUNITY CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN A CORP: $100,000 · OtherSAN MARINO COMMUNITY …+1 more: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $355,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOO…YOUNG & HEALTHY: $300,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEAL…POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $50,000 · EducationSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsPasadena Community Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,194,676Other$510,000Environment$355,000Health$300,000Education$175,000Youth Development$100,000Recreation & Sports$17,500Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,094,676 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $355,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $300,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $10,000 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.

California Community …John Jewett & Helen C…The Rose Hills Founda…Pasadena Community Fo…The Ahmanson Foundati…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Greenwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greenwood Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Greenwood Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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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