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The Woodman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Woodman Family 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$919kArts & Culture$128kFood & Nutrition$40kSocial Science$13kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK FOUNATION FOR THE ARTS$11,250
INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM$10,000
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS$10,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$5,000
STUDIO INSTITUTE LLC$3,000
CONCERTS IN MOTION INC$2,500
SPARK GALLERY$1,000
MUSEUM HUE$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SOC SER CORP: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 8 repeat orgs$992k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$113k
$978k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationSocial ScienceEmploymentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +20%
  • AB
    ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $919k · revenue +20%
  • BC
    BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +7%
  • TW
    The Woodman Residency Foundation LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Artists in Residence Inc

Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…

—
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
9
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
10
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
11
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Archipelago Books Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $919,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGNBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CEN…ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureARCHIPELA…INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATI…The Woodman Residency Foundation LTD: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Woodm…NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $11,250 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …+3 more: $4,100 · Arts & CultureARTSPACE: $15,000 · OtherCHARLESTOWN TRUST: $6,000 · OtherSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherSTUDIO INSTITUTE LLC: $4,500 · OtherGRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL SERVICES CORP: $5,000 · OtherThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $1,500 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $22,500 · Community ImprovementCITY HARVEST INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 · Social ScienceROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Education$919,000Arts & Culture$96,350Other$37,000Community Improvement$22,500Food & Nutrition$17,500Social Science$12,500Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $919,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $26,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $11,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL SERVICES CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK GALLERY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM HUE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Woodman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woodman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Woodman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Woodman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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