· Private foundation
Ruth B Wood Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA LAND TRUST | $4,000 |
| Oconee Memorial Hospital | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| CLEMSON FREE CLINIC | $2,000 |
| CAROLINA THUNDER LLC | $2,000 |
| CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE | $1,000 |
| BIRKSHIRE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Family Promise of Pickens County | $1,000 |
| Pendleton Historic Foundation | $1,000 |
| Clemson Child Development Center | $1,000 |
| INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $500 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GLGEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +172%
- CFCLEMSON FREE CLINIC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GCGRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BROOKS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SRSpringbank Retreatone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Piedmont healthcare, inc., ("phc") is organized exclusively for the benefit of, to manage the functions of, and to carry out the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of its subsidiary organizations.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To improve and maintain health for the residents of pendleton county and the larger community of which it is a part.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The foundation is organized to promote the welfare and future development of clemson university in its educational and scientific research purposes and to seek and receive gifts for the benefit of clemson university through endowment…
The mission of piedmont athens regional medical center is to improve the lives and health of those we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson Community Care Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Clemson Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REBUILD UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ruth B Wood Foundation Inc 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.