· Private foundation
Ron and Carole 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $458k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fostering Hope | $120,000 |
| Gospel Rescue Mission | $50,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $50,000 |
| St Andrews Episocpal Church | $47,000 |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Will Rogers High School | $35,000 |
| Rescue Those | $30,000 |
| Heritage Foundation | $30,000 |
| John 316 Mission | $25,000 |
| Shine Joplin | $20,000 |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $20,000 |
| For His Glory House | $20,000 |
| Wounded Warriors | $20,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $665k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- FHFOSTERING HOPE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $465k · revenue +22% · 32% of their budget
- YAYoung America's Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +5%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- SASt Andrews Day Care and Schoolone grant, 2022 · $75k
- SASt Andrews Episcopal Churchone grant, 2021 · $38k
The Foundation for Tulsa Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -70%
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.
Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 FOSTERING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHINE JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OCPAC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds FOR HIS GLORY HOUSES INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS EXCELLING BEYOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Youth Exposition Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ron and Carole Woods Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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