· Private foundation
The Woodard Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROW RIVER FIRE RESPONSE | $50,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $45,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE PROSPECTORS AND GOLD DIGGERS | $42,500 |
| SPIRIT OF BOHEMIA MINING DAYS | $40,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,900 |
| PAWS AND WHISKERS SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| OREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| KIDS FIRST CENTER | $15,000 |
| WELCOME HOME ANIMAL SHELTER | $13,500 |
| COTTAGE GROVE MUSEUM | $13,000 |
| SOUTH LANE MENTAL HEALTH | $10,500 |
| PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN | $10,000 |
| EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BOHEMIA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SQUARE ONE VILLAGES | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JGJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON4× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +46%
- CGCOTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2018–2025 · $89k · revenue +342% · 71% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC5× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +54%
Funded once
OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +53%
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +156%- PCPEACEHEALTH COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.
The mission of the eugene area chamber of commerce is to promote a healthy local economy by influencing business success, public policy, and community development.
To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.
The mission of the oma is to speak as the unified voice of medicine in oregon; advocate for a sustainable, equitable, and accessible healthcare environment; and energize physicians and physician assistants by building and supporting their…
How this is measured
123 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. 123 of the 211 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WESTERN OREGON EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ROW RIVER FIRE RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds EUGENE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPHELIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds EUGENE ACTIVE 2030 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eugene Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH LANE FAMILY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF COTTAGE GROVE ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELROD CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING ↗
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: Chambers Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Autzen Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Lane Community Health Council · Faye & Lucille Stewart Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · The Collins Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Woodard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woodard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Arc of Lane County: 79% of income from government
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated: 76% of income from government
- Womenspace: 62% of income from government
- South Lane Family Nursery Inc: 58% of income from government
- Hiv Alliance: 54% of income from government
- Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc: 33% of income from government
- Aprovecho: 30% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc: 30% of income from government
- Row River Fire Response: 26% of income from government
- Metropolitan Affordable Housing Corporation: 24% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services: 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare: 18% of income from government
- Connected Lane County: 17% of income from government
- Instaballet: 15% of income from government
- Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah: 14% of income from government
- Forests Today and Forever: 10% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust: 8% of income from government
- Oregon Equestrian Trails: 7% of income from government
- Bring Recycling: 7% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cottage Theatre: 5% of income from government
- South Lane Mental Health Services Inc: 5% of income from government
- Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras: 4% of income from government
- Squareone Villages: 2% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Ballet Fantastique: 2% of income from government
- Chamber Music Amici: 1% of income from government
- Parenting Now: 1% of income from government
- Eugene Concert Choir: 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca: 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jasper Mountain: 0% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Aviation Historical Society: 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center: 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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