· Private foundation
The Wood Foundation of Chambersburg
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $40,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY | $40,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $40,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $30,000 |
| AURORA THEATRE COMPANY | $30,000 |
| NEW LITERARY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| JOUNCE PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| FREIGHT AND SALVAGE COFFEEHOUSE | $12,000 |
| DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ART CENTER SARASOTA | $7,000 |
| THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $5,000 |
| URBANITE THEATRE | $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 (FY17–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +43%
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +48%- JPJOUNCE PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR ENVIORNMENTAL LITERACYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SLSOAR LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -63%
- EOEugene O'Neill Foundation Tao Housegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +52%
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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."
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Conservatory Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charles O Wood Iii & Miriam M Wood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 CHARLES O WOOD III & MIRIAM M WOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JOUNCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LITERARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds URBANITE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WOMENS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eugene O'Neill Foundation Tao House ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute 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: 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
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 Wood Foundation of Chambersburg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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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