· Private foundation
Ira R Wood and Frances Wood Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURTNER HOUSE RESTORATION SOCIETY | $27,530 |
| BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| TOUR-ED MINE AND MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| JANES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - NEW KENSINGTON | $18,000 |
| TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,449 |
| THE ALLEGHENY VALLEY SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| ALLEGHENY VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,945 |
| MANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $12,000 |
| CABOT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTORS OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY | $10,000 |
| FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTOUR-ED MINE & MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +200% · 38% of their budget
- BCBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +179%
- LSLUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $45k
- SPSTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $16k
- DCDEER CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.
"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…
Support residents of laurel view village through fundraisers.
Operate a public library
To provide the highest quality of care to those in their golden years.
The mission of saint joseph villa is rooted in the mission of the sisters of st. joseph who founded and sponsor the villa. the sisters' mission of uniting people with god and with one another is the primary focus of the staff at the villa.…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 88 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 TOUR-ED MINE & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds Community Library of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ira R Wood and Frances Wood Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ira R Wood and Frances Wood Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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