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Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$720k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$720k12%
FY202316$671k19%
FY202216$647k31%
FY202115$746k13%
FY202016$771k13%
FY201918$862kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHealth$600kYouth Development$360kAnimals$300kHuman Services$240kArts & Culture$206kRecreation & Sports$105kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NV
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($401k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDyslexia Tutoring Program: $480,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetAnne Arundel Community College Foundation Inc: $450,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHuman Development Corporation Ta the Su: $350,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBello Machre Inc: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brendan Corporation: $160,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetCapstone Christian Academy: $150,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCasey Cares Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAutism Society of North Carolina Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKids Need to Read: $125,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetLuminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRadcliffe Creek School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Boat & Yacht Council Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOhana of Howard County Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetRead Better Be Better: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetChesapeake Arts Center Inc: $55,600 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVillage of Hope Las Vegas: $50,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetAbyc Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetKinera Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAnnapolis Waterfront Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHoly Family Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc

How much does Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc give?
Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $720,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (13%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Dyslexia Tutoring Program ($480k), Anne Arundel Community College Foundation Inc ($450k), Human Development Corporation Ta the Su ($350k).
Does Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kathy and Jerry Wood 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 Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nora Roberts Foundation, The Kahlert Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc based?
Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 33 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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