· Private foundation
John R Woods Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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