Texas · Private foundation
The Woodforest Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 238
- Grants FY2024
- 214
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 190 to 214
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $147M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Woodforest Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 237 | $3.9M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 214 | $8.9M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 209 | $5.1M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 204 | $2.9M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 203 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 194 | $3.1M | 6% |
| FY2018 | 190 | $2.0M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 193 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $3,480,886 | 6 | 32% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1,706,253 | 3 | 1% |
| The Arbor School | $1,476,749 | 4 | 49% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $1,350,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| First Liberty Institute | $450,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $410,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Woodlands Religious Community Inc | $392,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Montgomery County Food Bank Inc | $302,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $293,050 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 184 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 154 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Woodforest Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 174 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Family Promise Inc · Feeding America · Montgomery County Community Foundation · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Apricity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank
How this is measured
Compare The Woodforest Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Woodforest Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Woodforest Charitable Foundation give?
- The Woodforest Charitable Foundation reported 238 grants totaling $3,948,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 190 and 214 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Woodforest Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are The Woodforest Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($3.5M), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($1.7M), The Arbor School ($1.5M).
- Does The Woodforest Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Woodforest Charitable 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 Woodforest Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Family Promise Inc, Feeding America, Montgomery County Community Foundation.
- Where is The Woodforest Charitable Foundation based?
- The Woodforest Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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