Illinois · Private foundation
The Woodbury 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Woodbury Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $973k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $1.3M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Wilson College | $3,258,278 | 9 | 1% |
| Thetford Academy | $634,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Work-Shop | $532,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Plowshare Farm Inc | $276,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Camp Thorpe Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 9% |
| California Trout Inc | $235,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Willing Hands Enterprises Inc | $220,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Aloha Foundation Inc | $199,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sonoma Academy | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Woodbury Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Marin Community Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · McBurney Foundation · Vermont Humanities Council · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc
How this is measured
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About The Woodbury Foundation
- How much does The Woodbury Foundation give?
- The Woodbury Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $1,855,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Woodbury Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Woodbury Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Warren Wilson College ($3.3M), Thetford Academy ($634k), Work-Shop ($533k).
- Does The Woodbury Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Woodbury Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Woodbury Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Woodbury Foundation based?
- The Woodbury Foundation is based in IL.
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