How much does The Woods and Gil Family Foundation give?

The Woods and Gil Family Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $181,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 71 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Woods and Gil Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (18%), Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are The Woods and Gil Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Schoolbox Project ($52k), ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts Inc ($51k), Food for Free Committee Inc ($42k).

Does The Woods and Gil Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Woods and Gil Family 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 Woods and Gil Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).

Where is The Woods and Gil Family Foundation based?

The Woods and Gil Family Foundation is based in IL.

The Woods and Gil Family Foundation

The Woods and Gil Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Woods and Gil 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.

$182k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

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.

International$192kHealth$130kHousing & Shelter$118kPhilanthropy$115kCivil Rights$110kHuman Services$85kScience & Tech$68kEnvironment$56kOther$0

02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k67 grants · $172k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,200

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE OMPRAKASH FOUNDATION FISCAL AGENT FOR HUMANITY CREW	$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC	$9,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC	$7,200
FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEES INC	$7,200
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$5,700
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC	$4,500
SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INCORPORATED	$4,500
PROJECT HOPE THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC	$4,300
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$4,300
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	$4,300
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC	$4,200
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE	$4,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC	$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC	$4,000
APOPO US INC	$3,600

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 72 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+93%

Still filing today

88%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +21%
FF
FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +74%
SF
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +33%

Funded once

SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +13%
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ALIGHT (AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE)
one grant, 2020 · $2k
GB
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +93%

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.

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Refugees International Inc

Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.

International

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture

Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

68 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. 68 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/68

Grantees still filing

52/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$274,650Other$426,685Human Services$126,500Civil Rights$91,750Health$57,150Philanthropy$54,850Arts & Culture$54,815

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Learning by Giving Foundation Inc · Ploughshares 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 Woods and Gil Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woods and Gil Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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