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The Woods Charitable 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE OAK SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| KING RIDGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MENTIS | $3,000 |
| ALDEA | $2,500 |
| YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY | $2,500 |
| ALZEHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE | $2,000 |
| NAPA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | $1,000 |
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, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Woods Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- BOBLUE OAK SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +126%
Best Buddies International Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $116k · revenue +18%- LCLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- PMPHOENIX MULTISPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +306%
- CPCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFEone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -15%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CLINICone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the land trust of napa county is to preserve the character of napa county by permanently protecting land. the organization's vision is the protection of unique natural resources, proactive preservation of the scenic beauty,…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…
The napa valley museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enriching the cultural fabric of our community through exhibitions, collections, educational programs and creative activities that promote knowledge and…
NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Planned Parenthood Northern California generates healthier communities through the delivery of quality sexual and reproductive health care services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldea Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 BLUE OAK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KING RIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE THE SLAVES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cope Family Center ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY CANDO ↗
- Who funds di Rosa Preserve ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cameo ↗
- Who funds GO CONSCIOUS EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Resources for Children ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Community Projects Inc · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Winiarski Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · International Children's Dream Foundation · The Vollmer Family Foundation
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 Woods Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 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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