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Pond House Woods Foundation at a glance

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Pond House Woods Foundation

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.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$355kHealth$174kArts & Culture$53kInternational$36kAnimals$18kPublic Benefit$18kCrime & Legal$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKOKIE VALLEY ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION$50,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$45,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$25,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND$8,000
WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KENNEDYS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 22%BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 11%BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INCORPORATED: $6k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 15%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 7%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 11%HONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INCORPORATED: $3k → 15%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 7%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 11%HONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INCORPORATED: $3k → 15%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 7%INCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE: $2k → 14%BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 11%HONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INCORPORATED: $3k → 15%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 7%PARK RIDGE CIVIC ORCHESTRA: $3k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INCORPORATED: $3k → 15%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 7%INCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE: $2k → 14%WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 7%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $45k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $40k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $40k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $40k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $40k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $40k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $39k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $38k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $33k → 14%SKOKIE VALLEY ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONA: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
MD
TN
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$598k · 12 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$598k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+83%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitInternationalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • CE
    CELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +11%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER
    4× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • KD
    KENNEDY'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +113%
  • AS
    APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +83%
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc

The baltimore symphony orchestra's (bso) mission is to promote, organize, manage and maintain a symphony orchestra for the city of baltimore and the state of maryland and to hold, sponsor, and present musical concerts by the baltimore…

Arts & Culture
2
Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra

Berkeley community chorus & orchestra now in its 60th year has preserved three founding principles over the years: we acceept singers regardless of qualification and experience we give concerts of significant symphonic choral works with a…

Arts & Culture
3
The Chicago Community Loan Fund

Organization provides low-cost, flexible financing to non-profit and for-profit community development organizations for the revitalization of low and moderate income neighborhoods throughout metropolitan chicago.

Community Improvement
4
The Chicago Chamber Music Society

Chamber music concerts

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5
Baltimore Symphony Endowment Trust

The organization is a supporting organization of the baltimore symphony orchestra, inc. (bso) and exists to support bso in accomplishing its missions. the depreciation expense of the endowment trust relates to assets used by the bso in…

Education
6
Chicago Community Bond Fund

Ccbf pays bond for people charged with crimes in cook county, illinois. through a revolving fund, ccbf supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence.

Crime & Legal
7
Brevard Chamber Orchestra Association Inc

The mission of the brevard philharmonic is to inspire, educate, and enrich the audiences through exceptional, professional musical performances and community outreach.

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8
University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation

The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy, and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.

Health
9
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
10
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
11
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
12
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Inc

To increase public awareness about bladder cancer, to advance bladder cancer research, and to provide educational and support services for the bladder cancer community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Celebration Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Skokie Valley Orchestral Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE: $230,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGEFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONA: $50,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONACROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - ILLINOIS: $20,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $18,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $21,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER…KENNEDY'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION INC: $7,700 · HealthKENNEDY'S DIS…Skokie Valley Orchestral Association: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $36,000 · InternationalWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,300 · AnimalsHONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INC: $17,500 · Public BenefitAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$463,000Health$78,700Arts & Culture$50,000International$36,000Animals$18,300Public Benefit$17,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetSkokie Valley Orchestral Association: $50,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATION EDUCATION FUND: $36,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $21,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT DAYTON INC: $17,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetKENNEDY'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION INC: $7,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pond House Woods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pond House Woods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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