New York · Private foundation
The Big Wood Foundation
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.
- $542k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $426k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 67
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Big Wood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 64 | $423k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $422k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $357k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $374k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $440k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends Without a Border | $367,400 | 6 | 3% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $86,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc | $82,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Independent Feature Project Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Willows Community School | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $43,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $32,362 | 6 | 0% |
| Louis August Jonas Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 1% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $26,900 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($997k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Big Wood Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Kestrel Foundation · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Open Society Institute · California Community Foundation · The Block Grausman Fund · Rene Bloch Foundation · Shaftel Family Foundation Inc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Big Wood Foundation
- How much does The Big Wood Foundation give?
- The Big Wood Foundation reported 65 itemized grants totaling $425,850, out of $542,350 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 67 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Big Wood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), International (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Big Wood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Friends Without a Border ($367k), Team Rubicon Inc ($86k), Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc ($82k).
- Does The Big Wood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Big Wood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Big Wood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Kestrel Foundation, Coleman Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Big Wood Foundation based?
- The Big Wood Foundation is based in NY.
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