· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DSYLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM | $80,000 |
| SISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $50,000 |
| BELLO MACHRE | $50,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITIY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAPSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| AUTISIM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| THE SUMMIT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE BRENDAN CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE | $30,400 |
| Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $30,000 |
| KIDS NEED TO READ | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| OHANA OF HOWARD COUNTY | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- AAANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +31%
- HDHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU6× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +41%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- LHLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +68%
- AOASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATORS OF THE EAST WILLISTOone grant, 2019 · $56k
- AFABYC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +463% · 60% of their budget
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.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Empower all students and families to become active participants in their own learning and equip them with skills for the future. we achieve this through engaging content, delvered by innovative teaching in a culture of caring.
Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
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A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Nonprofit organization that provides educational programs and therapeutic services that invest in the abilities of neurodivergent children and young adults with unique learning needs including special education.
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
Sea crest school is dedicated to providing the best in innovative education to inspire and empower our learners to engage curiosity, express creativity, act with compassion and lead with courage.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Ministries. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 33 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 DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLO MACHRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Brendan Corporation ↗
- Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Capstone Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds KIDS NEED TO READ ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BOAT & YACHT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OHANA OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds READ BETTER BE BETTER ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds ABYC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS WATERFRONT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
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.
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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 Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% 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.