· Private foundation
L Dexter Woodman Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PINGREE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $2,489 |
| MASSACHUSETTS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIO | $2,000 |
| IPSWICH CARING | $1,000 |
| ACTION INC | $500 |
| WENHAM MUSEUM | $258 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $105 |
| GENEROUS GARDENERS | $103 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of L Dexter Woodman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 78%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +50%- NSNORTH SHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +59%
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has been creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement, and pathways to citizenship. founded in…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 77 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.
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: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · McCarthy Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L Dexter Woodman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L Dexter Woodman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Action Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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