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The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE MARVIN AND DEE WOODALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOYLESTOWN PRESBYTERIAN C$72,000
DOYLESTOWN TOWNSHIP$25,100
HERITAGE CONSERVANCY$18,600
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE$14,824
BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION$12,500
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,738
BUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY$10,000
MCCARTNEY FOUNDATION$6,030
AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS$5,400
DOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOC$5,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$5,000
THE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM$5,000
OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FD$5,000
INT'L SOCIETY OF ENDOVASCULAR SPECI$2,330
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FDN$1,700
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHRISTS HOME: $25k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FDN: $500 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 72 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
56

Total granted

$2.2M
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+49%

Still filing today

57%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $301k · revenue +28%
  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +703%
  • RC
    RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +421%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHRISTS HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • MM
    MERCER MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA LB GENERAL
    one grant, 2017 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

11
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fortuna Clinical Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Senior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Local History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr17%54%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,093

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.

04the grantee network

66 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 133 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
51/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOYLESTOWN PRESBYTERIAN C — $505,576 · OtherDOYLESTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE — $147,133 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSEAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS — $65,718 · OtherAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANSTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $62,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherANN SILVERMAN COMM HEALTH — $42,702 · Other+87 more — $334,742 · Other+87 moreDOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL — $300,610 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HOSPITALDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,738 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALTH F…OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthOKLAHOMA HEART HOSP…CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS — $16,000 · HealthHEPATITIS B FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Health+4 more — $7,500 · HealthBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION — $120,500 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY HERAL…HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $114,600 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CONSERVAN…BUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY — $51,600 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY CHORA…DOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP — $45,500 · Arts & CultureDOYLESTOWN HISTORI…KIMMEL CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBroadway Dallas Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM — $14,495 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $7,102 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $116,200 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $48,000 · Education+6 more — $13,730 · EducationRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $115,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTS HOME — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $825 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Foundation — $8,010 · PhilanthropyFORTUNA CLINICAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,200 · PhilanthropyPERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES INC — $11,000 · ReligionTHE OAKS COLLABORATIVE — $3,000 · Religion
Other$1,202,871Health$405,848Arts & Culture$388,797Education$177,930Human Services$140,825Philanthropy$44,210Religion$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL — $300,610 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION — $120,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $116,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $114,600 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS — $65,718 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $62,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY — $51,600 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP — $45,500 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,738 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTS HOME — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEPATITIS B FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM — $14,495 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES INC — $11,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $8,010 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ENDOVASCULAR SPECIALISTS — $5,430 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORTUNA CLINICAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINGS ACADEMY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVE UNITED — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $1,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS BEAUTIFUL INC — $1,055 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $516 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS
  • Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP
  • Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHRISTS HOME
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS
  • Who funds HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Broadway Dallas Inc
  • Who funds JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds Travis Manion Foundation

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.

Bucks County Conference & Visitors BureauPA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Morel Family Foundation · The Byers Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · Max & Belle Jacoby Foundation · Pfundt Foundation · Bbla Foundation Inc · Waldman Family Charitable Trust · Frank R Goodman Family Foundation · The Pamela Minford Charitable Foundation · The Argus Fund

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 Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Move United16% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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