· Private foundation
John R Woods Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $22,500 |
| RED WIND COUNCILS INC | $19,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $10,000 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| MATW PROJECT USA | $10,000 |
| LIFE QUEST FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| STREET WISE ARTS | $6,000 |
| USA SHOOTING INC | $5,000 |
| UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FDN | $5,000 |
| OUR FAMILY FARMS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
59 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- NFNRA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +34%
- ACAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +17%
THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $19k
- AHANNUNCIATION HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $17k
- MEMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +424%
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 28 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 103 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 RED WIND COUNCILS INC ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NO GREATER LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STREET WISE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MATW PROJECT USA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDEPADS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITTIER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds USA Shooting 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: 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
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 John R Woods 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.
- United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% 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.