· Private foundation
The a Woodner Fund Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STREB INC | $140,000 |
| DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE | $100,000 |
| ACLU | $80,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART THE | $55,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION THE | $50,000 |
| ETHEL'S FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| SCULPTURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| QUEENS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY THE | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BROOKE USA FOUNDATION THE | $5,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- DTDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
- SISTREB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
- QBQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- GBGREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -36% · 33% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- BWBERKSHIRE WALDORF SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delivering Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 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. 61 of the 106 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 DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds STREB INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds ETHELS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY FARM SCHOOL FOR HORSE AND RIDER COR ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION ADVANCING CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC SURVIAL ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC ↗
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: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Studio in a School Association Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
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 The a Woodner Fund 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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.
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