· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | $52,500 |
| METROPOLITAIN OPERA | $50,000 |
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER | $35,000 |
| WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $11,000 |
| KCRW | $10,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LA PHIL | $10,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAIN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAST | $5,500 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
87 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 15 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER6× · 2019–2024 · $367k · revenue +94%
- TWTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +19%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- RHREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ST. LOUISone grant, 2022 · $55k
- IFINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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,…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
How this is measured
104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 172 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 FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds LOUIS AUGUST JONAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DENAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Civilians Inc ↗
- Who funds Fred Dolan Art Academy Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Big Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Big Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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