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The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$398k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$348k11%
FY202317$256k29%
FY202217$313k18%
FY202117$476k6%
FY202018$990k11%
FY201916$730k0%
FY201819$813k11%
FY201720$375kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.5MEducation$452kPhilanthropy$287kYouth Development$225kEnvironment$137kHealth$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($347k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCharles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation: $2,600,000 over 6y, 81% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Alameda County: $225,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFlorida Studio Theatre Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJounce Partners Inc: $175,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation: $150,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNew Literary Project: $150,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $70,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBerkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music: $48,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Mary's College of California: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrbanite Theatre Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetChautauqua Institution: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArt Center Sarasota Inc: $31,034 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLibrary Foundation for Sarasota County Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetOakland Museum of California: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center: $14,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Daytime Drop-In Center: $14,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOld-Growth Forest Network Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEugene O'Neill Foundation Tao House: $3,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Conservatory Theatre Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalisbury University Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Simpson Psb Fund · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg 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.

About The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg

How much does The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg give?
The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg reported 20 grants totaling $398,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Education (10%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Charles O Wood III & Miriam M Wood Foundation ($2.6M), Girls Incorporated of Alameda County ($225k), Florida Studio Theatre Inc ($200k).
Does The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg based?
The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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