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Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn at a glance

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Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$366k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$783kHealth$456kAnimals$403kYouth Development$217kHousing & Shelter$208kCrime & Legal$165kEducation$136kEnvironment$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $356k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE HOUSE STL$36,000
ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSN OF MISSOURI$30,000
ST PATRICK CENTER$25,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$25,000
LIFT FOR LIFE GYM$25,000
ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY$25,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SEMINARY IN VA$20,000
CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS - COCA$20,000
EMMAUS HOMES INC$20,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC$20,000
FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION$20,000
GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION$15,000
CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF$10,000
ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 9%Nurses for Newborns: $10k → 11%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 9%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOC INC: $15k → 9%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 9%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 9%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOC INC: $10k → 9%DISABIILITY RESOURCE ASSOC INC: $10k → 9%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $15k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $15k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 21%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $15k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $10k → 21%ARCHS: $10k → 21%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 37 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
20

Total granted

$2.4M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+39%

Still filing today

78%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FC
    FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +248%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +75%
  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI
    6× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • CS
    CARING SOLUTIONS - SERVICES BY DESIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • AA
    ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION NATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • GK
    GIVE KIDS A SMILE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +39%
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
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal
3
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
4
Gateway Homeless Services Inc

To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…

Human Services
5
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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8
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
9
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
10
St Louis Arc Inc

To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead better lives by providing a lifetime of high-quality services, family support and advocacy.

Human Services
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
12
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is Perennial. 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

47 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. 47 of the 63 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $160,000 · OtherFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUISST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $150,000 · OtherST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERYASSOCIATION ON AGING: $130,000 · OtherASSOCIATION ON AGINGGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $95,000 · OtherGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGSST PATRICK CENTER: $75,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $60,000 · OtherMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 · Other+36 more: $796,000 · Other+36 moreANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI: $148,000 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTE…HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $140,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIE…+2 more: $20,000 · Animals+2 moreDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY…GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN A…SAFE CONNECTIONS: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CONNE…THE COVERING HOUSE: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE COVERI…NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10,000 · Human ServicesAREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $116,000 · EducationREADY READERS: $46,000 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCASA OF ST LOUIS: $145,000 · Civil RightsINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $75,000 · HealthSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · HealthHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE: $10,000 · HealthLift for Life Gym Inc: $130,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,526,000Animals$308,000Human Services$262,000Education$202,000Civil Rights$145,000Health$135,000Youth Development$130,000

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 budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $160,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $150,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI: $148,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF ST LOUIS: $145,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $116,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $60,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREADY READERS: $46,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE STL: $36,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE CONNECTIONS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAlmost Home: $22,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIVE KIDS A SMILE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMMAUS HOMES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COVERING HOUSE: $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPERENNIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCare to Learn: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds READY READERS ↗
  • Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE STL ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds SAFE CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Almost Home ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIVE KIDS A SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS HOMES 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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Pott FoundationWorld Wide Technology…Edward Jones Foundati…Brown Dana Charitable…St Louis Philanthropi…Edward Jones Foundati…Tsf
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO50.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Edward Jones Foundation · Tsf

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 Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 63 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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