Georgia · Private foundation
Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $190M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000,025
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9B
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $170M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $81M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $105M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $171M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $165M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $140M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc | $195,000,160 | 3 | 71% |
| Emory University | $99,200,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Ichauway Inc | $88,185,000 | 6 | 98% |
| Atlanta Beltline Partnership Inc | $64,510,206 | 5 | 49% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $35,000,080 | 5 | 10% |
| Georgia State University Foundation Inc | $27,000,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $25,000,107 | 2 | 5% |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $25,000,053 | 1 | n/a |
| Emory University | $24,950,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Apf Support Inc | $23,000,000 | 4 | 25% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Assurant Foundation
How this is measured
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About Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc give?
- Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $190,310,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (20%).
- Who are Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc ($195M), Emory University ($99M), Ichauway Inc ($88M).
- Does Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc.
- Where is Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc based?
- Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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