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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $740k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $723k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $325,000 |
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| THETFORD ACADEMY | $105,000 |
| USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CEN | $97,500 |
| HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $85,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOC | $55,000 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| PROJECT TRANSFORMATION RIO TEXAS | $50,000 |
| DIGITAL STONE PROJECT | $40,000 |
| PLOWSHARE FARM | $40,000 |
| CAMP THORPE | $40,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $40,000 |
| SONOMA ACADEMY | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $436k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +78%- TATHETFORD ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $634k · revenue +20%
- PFPLOWSHARE FARM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $277k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- DADOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAone grant, 2023 · $95k
- UFUT FOUNDATION HEALTH SCIENCE CNTRone grant, 2024 · $65k
- THTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLAone grant, 2019 · $56k · revenue +6%
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.
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Ranch Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Mastersingers. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 127 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 WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THETFORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PLOWSHARE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP THORPE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOLINAS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training ↗
- Who funds NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HIPPOTHERAPY ASSOCIATION 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: 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
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 Woodbury 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northeast Slopes Inc — 30% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Thetford Academy — 2% of income from government
- Norwich Community Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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