Michigan · Private foundation
John R Woods Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $205k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations John R Woods Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $200k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $220k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $199k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $194k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $218k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Wind Councils Inc | $113,000 | 5 | 27% |
| NRA Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Conservative Union Foundationinc | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boulder Building Blocks Fund Inc | $40,500 | 5 | 7% |
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $38,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| America First Policy Institute Inc | $22,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| No Greater Love Foundation | $18,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John R Woods Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Impactassetsinc · AEC Trust · Rose Community Foundation · Sayler-Hawkins Foundation · Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
About John R Woods Foundation
- How much does John R Woods Foundation give?
- John R Woods Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does John R Woods Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (16%), Crime & Legal (14%), Environment (10%).
- Who are John R Woods Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Red Wind Councils Inc ($113k), NRA Foundation Inc ($110k), American Conservative Union Foundationinc ($56k).
- Does John R Woods Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John R Woods Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John R Woods Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is John R Woods Foundation based?
- John R Woods Foundation is based in MI.
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