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· Private foundation

Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$807kCrime & Legal$295kReligion$277kArts & Culture$272kAnimals$201kFood & Nutrition$197kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $193k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $523k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE$75,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$75,000
CATAWBA COLLEGE$75,000
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY$75,000
COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC$45,000
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES$45,000
TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$37,000
LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE$35,000
ROWAN-SALISBURY SCHOOL SYSTEM$25,800
MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN INC$25,000
NEXT GENERATION SPORTS ACADEMY$25,000
ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS$20,000
DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$20,000
HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$18,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELDER ORPHAN CARE: $5k → 8%ELDER ORPHAN CARE: $4k → 8%ARC OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $8k → 8%ARC OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $8k → 8%ARC OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $8k → 8%SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $11k → 15%SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $7k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $7k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $5k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $5k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $5k → 15%SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $5k → 15%SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $5k → 15%SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $4k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $3k → 15%HAPPY'S FARM INC: $3k → 15%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 11%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 11%ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $8k → 11%ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $8k → 11%NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10k → 15%NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10k → 15%ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $8k → 11%NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $6k → 15%NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $6k → 15%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $6k → 11%ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $5k → 11%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $100k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $45k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $15k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $15k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $15k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $10k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%ONE LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 15%FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $10k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%ONE LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 15%FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $10k → 15%FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $10k → 15%ARC OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $8k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 15%FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $8k → 15%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $7k → 15%FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 79%.

Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 81 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
23

Total granted

$5.9M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

75%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CATAWBA COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +309%
  • Davidson College
    5× · 2019–2024 · $372k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DA
    DAVIDSON ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • CO
    COGNITION OF DAVIE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -4%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rowan Economic Development Council

Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina

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2
Rowan County Chamber of Commerce

Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina

Community Improvement
3
Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency

Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.

Human Services
4
Rowan County Youth Services Bureau Inc

Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county

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5
Roxboro Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school

Education
6
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
7
Downtown Salisbury Inc

Promoting, enhancing and managing the development of the commercial, business, economic, residential, civic, and historical development of downtown salisbury, north carolina.

Community Improvement
8
Robeson County Partnership for Children

To make a compelling impact on Robeson County families by collaborating with early childhood agencies to support programs that measurably develop young children and their caregivers for success.

Education
9
Robeson Health Care Corporation

Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.

Health
10
Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc

Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…

Human Services
11
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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12
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Rowan County; the most unlike its peers is Rowan Idea Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 116 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
51/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $447,000 · EducationMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITYCATAWBA COLLEGE: $447,000 · EducationCATAWBA COLLEGEDavidson College: $372,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeLivingstone College: $125,000 · EducationLivingstone CollegeHOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $82,000 · EducationRowan County Crosby Scholars Community Partnership: $69,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $82,200 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE: $397,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCEFAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC: $194,000 · OtherFAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INCROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $181,000 · OtherROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION IN…DAVIE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA: $105,000 · OtherROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $169,760 · OtherROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INCA STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC: $130,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN: $141,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN+60 more: $1,226,696 · Other+60 moreROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $342,250 · Human ServicesROWAN HELPING M…PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $151,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN LEA…Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc: $64,000 · Human ServicesApseed Early Ch…FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $39,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACE FARM INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesNAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesThe Arc of North Carolina Inc: $31,500 · Human Services+6 more: $125,640 · Human Services+6 moreCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC: $260,000 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $90,000 · HealthCAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $60,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthBELL TOWER GREEN INC: $75,300 · Arts & CultureBEACON HALL INCORPORATED: $41,075 · Arts & CulturePIEDMONT PLAYERS THEATRE INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureWATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureSALISBURY SYMPHONY INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureROWAN MUSEUM INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureCOGNITION OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEE STREET THEATRE: $13,000 · Arts & CulturePOPS AT THE POST INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROWAN COUNTY: $80,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY: $62,500 · AnimalsFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $54,000 · Animals+1 more: $4,000 · AnimalsTERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $172,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Education$1,684,200Other$2,544,456Human Services$862,390Health$425,000Arts & Culture$298,875Animals$200,500Crime & Legal$174,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $447,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $447,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College: $372,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $342,250 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC: $260,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC: $194,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $181,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $172,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $169,760 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $151,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN: $141,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetA STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC: $130,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetLivingstone College: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $82,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROWAN COUNTY: $80,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetBELL TOWER GREEN INC: $75,300 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRowan County Crosby Scholars Community Partnership: $69,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetApseed Early Childhood Education Inc: $64,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY: $62,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL OF ROWAN COUNTY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY: $60,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetNEXT GENERATION ACADEMY-SALISBURY: $55,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $54,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Davie County: $48,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetLIFE CHOICES ROWAN: $43,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST-NC INC: $43,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $39,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $39,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET MISSION OF CHINA GROVE: $37,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAVING GRACE FARM INC: $34,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetPIEDMONT PLAYERS THEATRE INC: $33,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC: $32,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetNAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Arc of North Carolina Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER CROSS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $29,300 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY: $28,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetHAPPYS FARM INC: $28,140 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetROWAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY SYMPHONY INC: $21,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe Pedal Factory: $21,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetHAPPY ROOTS INC: $20,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetROWAN MUSEUM INC: $20,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
  • Who funds A STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC ↗
  • Who funds Livingstone College ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAGONFLY HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Rowan County Crosby Scholars Community Partnership ↗
  • Who funds Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT GENERATION ACADEMY-SALISBURY ↗
  • Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise of Davie County ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CHOICES ROWAN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC ↗
  • Who funds BEACON HALL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DAVIE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…The Hurley-Trammell F…Duke Energy FoundationRowan Regional Medica…Rowan County United W…The Wallace Family Fo…Novant Health IncThe Wilson L Smith Fa…Joe L & Hester Sims F…Davie Community Found…Reynolds American Fou…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC95.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · Rowan County United Way Inc · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · Davie Community Foundation Inc · Reynolds American 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 116 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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