Georgia · Private foundation
Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $1.8M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $2.1M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $1.8M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $1.8M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $1.6M | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Columbus Museum Inc | $1,090,282 | 9 | 4% |
| Springer Opera House Arts Associationinc | $1,030,164 | 9 | 6% |
| Columbus State University Foundation Inc | $1,025,493 | 9 | 4% |
| Auburn University Foundation | $622,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc | $535,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Salvation Army | $525,179 | 5 | n/a |
| The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc | $507,024 | 3 | 12% |
| The Corporation of Mercer University | $500,138 | 2 | 0% |
| Valley Rescue Mission | $443,419 | 9 | 2% |
| Historic Columbus Foundation Inc | $405,516 | 9 | 11% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc
- How much does Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc give?
- Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc reported 53 grants totaling $1,791,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (14%).
- Who are Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Columbus Museum Inc ($1.1M), Springer Opera House Arts Associationinc ($1.0M), Columbus State University Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc, Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc based?
- Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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