· Private foundation
The Woods Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ WALDORF SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| STANFORD HOOVER HOUSE | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY | $25,000 |
| CHAMPIONS CLUB | $25,000 |
| STANFORD LIVE | $10,000 |
| ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PRECOURT DIRECTOR'S DISCRETIONARY FUND | $10,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE WOODS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY WRITER'S CONFERENCE | $8,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $6,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWildlife Conservation Society2× · 2023–2025 · $313k · revenue +16%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +84%
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION7× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- RLRESOURCES LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
- HHHOOVER HOUSE CIRCLEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CCCHAMPIONS CLUBone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Precourt Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Compassionate Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VACLAV HAVEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Woods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Vista Life Innovations Inc: 33% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Woods Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Woods 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.
Play a game based on Woods’ filings →