· Private foundation
Ls Wood Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $44,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-BOULDER | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILL URBANA CHAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $13,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNI OF DENVER | $10,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| REGIS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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.
53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILL URBANA CHAMPone grant, 2023 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CO SPRINGone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MUMarquette Universityone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loyola University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 87 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 REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
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- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
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