· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $458k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fostering Hope | $120,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $50,000 |
| Gospel Rescue Mission | $50,000 |
| St Andrews Episocpal Church | $47,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $40,000 |
| Will Rogers High School | $35,000 |
| Heritage Foundation | $30,000 |
| Rescue Those | $30,000 |
| John 316 Mission | $25,000 |
| Shine Joplin | $20,000 |
| Wounded Warriors | $20,000 |
| Young America's Foundation | $20,000 |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $20,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- FHFOR HIS GLORY HOUSES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FOR HIS GLORY HOUSES INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ron and Carole Woods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ron and Carole Woods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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