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John R Woods Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$168kCrime & Legal$149kEnvironment$104kEducation$96kFood & Nutrition$78kHuman Services$65kHealth$64kSocial Science$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$22,500
RED WIND COUNCILS INC$19,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
LIFE QUEST FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$10,000
MATW PROJECT USA$10,000
SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
STREET WISE ARTS$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
USA SHOOTING INC$5,000
THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FDN$5,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$5,000
OUR FAMILY FARMS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $4k → 8%MATW PROJECT USA: $10k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 8%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%EL CENTRO AMISTAD: $3k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $18k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $6k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $9k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $8k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $3k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $5k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $3k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $2k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $1k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCK FUND: $1k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$850k · 59 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
30

Total granted

$850k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+36%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NF
    NRA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +34%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +17%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
  • AH
    ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • ME
    MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +424%
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
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
2
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Mountain Area Land Trust

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.

Environment
5
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
6
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
7
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
9
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
10
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center; 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.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/75
Grantees still filing
55/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR FAMILY FARMS: $60,000 · OtherOUR FAMILY FARMSIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · OtherBOULDER WOMEN'S HEALTH: $18,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC: $17,000 · OtherNO GREATER LOVE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $38,000 · OtherTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTERSTREET WISE ARTS: $16,500 · Other+58 more: $220,500 · Other+58 moreRED WIND COUNCILS INC: $113,000 · InternationalRED WIND COUNCILS…MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $15,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILD…PRIDEPADS AFRICA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMAIA: $6,000 · International+4 more: $14,500 · International+4 moreNRA FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Crime & LegalNRA FOUNDATION I…EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GU…+1 more: $4,000 · Crime & LegalBOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND INC: $40,500 · Human ServicesBOULDER B…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY…MATW PROJECT USA: $10,000 · Human ServicesMATW PROJ…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM S…Bridge House: $7,000 · Human ServicesBridge Ho…THERE WITH CARE: $3,000 · Human ServicesEl Centro AMISTAD: $3,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $17,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $6,500 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INC: $4,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $56,000 · Social ScienceAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 · EducationALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $4,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationGLOWMUNDO CREATIONS INC: $3,000 · EducationPARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL OF BOULDER: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$481,500International$156,500Crime & Legal$149,000Human Services$86,500Environment$58,500Social Science$56,000Education$48,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRED WIND COUNCILS INC: $113,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND INC: $40,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNO GREATER LOVE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTREET WISE ARTS: $16,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMATW PROJECT USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIDEPADS AFRICA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHITTIER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PTA: $7,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBridge House: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAIA: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetE TOWN: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUSA Shooting Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICINE HORSE PROGRAM: $5,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSudanese American Physicians Assn: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Assault Prevention Project of Washoe County: $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWind River Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOWMUNDO CREATIONS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArts Business Collaborative: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL OF BOULDER: $3,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MATW PROJECT USA ↗
  • Who funds PRIDEPADS AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITTIER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PTA ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge House ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIA ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds E TOWN ↗

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO34× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 John R Woods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John R Woods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report 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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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