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Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$90M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$270MPhilanthropy$223MEducation$209MCommunity Improvement$157MArts & Culture$70MPublic Safety & Disaster$28MYouth Development$22MEnvironment$21MOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
  • $250k+22 grants · $190M
$2,000,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Emory University$90,000,025
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta$20,000,052
Atlanta Area Council Scouting America$15,500,000
Ichauway Incorporated$13,100,000
Atlanta Beltline Partnership$12,310,068
National Center for Civil and Human Rights$8,500,000
Atlanta Fulton County Zoo$6,000,000
The Conservation Fund$5,000,000
Fernbank Inc$4,000,000
Georgia Cities Foundation$2,500,000
Emory University$2,000,000
Park Pride$2,000,000
Emory University$2,000,000
Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation$1,000,000
Chastain Park Conservancy$1,000,000
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 (FY20–21, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%New American Pathways: $150k → 14%American National Red Cross: $600k → 13%Westside Future Fund: $3.0M → 13%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Robert W Woodruff 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$742M · 34 repeat orgs$90M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
33

Total granted

$742M
$59M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+15%

Still filing today

91%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RW
    Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $195M · revenue +50% · 71% of their budget
  • II
    ICHAUWAY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $88M · revenue +35% · 98% of their budget
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25M · revenue -77%
  • WF
    WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +83% · 38% of their budget
  • TR
    THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.8M · revenue +17%
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
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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2
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
3
Uga Real Estate Foundation Inc

The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…

Philanthropy
4
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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5
Georgia Tech Research Corporation

The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.

Health
6
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
7
Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…

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8
Georgia Hospital Association

The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…

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9
Georgia Aquarium Foundation Inc

To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…

Animals
10
The Atlanta Chapter the American Institute of Architects Inc

To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.

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11
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
12
Georgia Tech Foundation Real Estate Holding Corporation

The georgia tech foundation real estate holding corporation was formed to hold title to real estate and similar property on behalf of the georgia tech foundation, inc., and for other purposes permitted under section 501(c)(2) of the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ichauway Inc. 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 81 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc: $195,000,160 · EducationRobert W Woodruff Health Sciences…Georgia State University Foundation Inc: $27,000,000 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundati…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,107 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCEmory University: $24,950,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $15,472,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $12,000,000 · Education+5 more: $16,200,042 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $220,500,332 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR…SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,053 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION I…THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION …+7 more: $6,680,000 · PhilanthropyEMORY UNIVERSITY: $99,200,025 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYICHAUWAY INC: $88,185,000 · OtherICHAUWAY INCAtlanta Area Council Scouting America: $15,500,000 · OtherAtlanta Area Council Scouting…PARK PRIDE INC: $9,650,000 · Other+34 more: $60,863,000 · Other+34 moreATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $64,510,206 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLI…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $35,000,080 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODR…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000,002 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTOR…NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $10,750,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTE…+5 more: $8,750,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreAPF SUPPORT INC: $23,000,000 · Housing & ShelterJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $11,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $10,000,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC: $1,100,000 · Health+2 more: $850,000 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $9,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $2,750,000 · Environment+2 more: $425,000 · Environment
Education$315,622,309Philanthropy$267,280,385Other$273,398,025Arts & Culture$131,010,288Housing & Shelter$24,000,000Health$22,950,000Environment$20,175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $220,500,332 over 4y, 28% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc: $195,000,160 over 3y, 71% of budgetICHAUWAY INC: $88,185,000 over 6y, 98% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $64,510,206 over 5y, 49% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $35,000,080 over 5y, 10% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $27,000,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,107 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEmory University: $24,950,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAPF SUPPORT INC: $23,000,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $15,472,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,100,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000,002 over 2y, 32% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $12,000,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $11,000,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $10,750,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $10,000,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $9,650,000 over 6y, 95% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $9,000,042 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC: $9,000,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $9,000,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $6,500,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFEEDING GEORGIA INC: $5,000,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $3,180,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC: $2,800,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $2,750,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $2,500,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab: $2,500,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $2,500,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $2,100,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $1,200,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $1,100,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEWTOWN MACON INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Technical College System of Georgia Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $963,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCANDID: $900,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC: $750,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…James M Cox Foundatio…The Imlay Foundation …J Bulow Campbell Foun…Tull Charitable Found…AEC TrustThe Zeist Foundation …The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainJewish Federation of …Assurant Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    16report 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

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    How do I get to Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Robert W Woodruff 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 81 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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