· Private foundation
Jennifer and James Wood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILYREUNITED INITIATIVE | $12,000 |
| CATACAP | $10,000 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | $7,500 |
| THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| UHIWAI O HALEAKALA | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| SONOMA ARTS LIVE | $1,000 |
| WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUS | $1,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND INC | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| BRIGIT A FEENEY FOUNDATION FOR HOPE AND HEALING | $250 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN INC | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +8%
- TCTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +39%
GREENPEACE FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BTBY THE BAY HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +12%
- VSVEG STUDENT ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- LLLA LUZ CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To raise awareness about social and environmental issues relating to tropical forests and other ecosystems, to wildlife, and to the important role that natural ecosystems play in maintaining critical services, including stabilizing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Magic Yarn Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds CATACAP ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UHIWAI O HALEAKALA ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Arts Live ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Sister Cities Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Magic Yarn Project ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seeds of Learning ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGIT A FEENEY FOUNDATION FOR HOPE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jennifer and James Wood Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.