Illinois · Private foundation
The Woods Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $864k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Woods Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $864k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $769k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $756k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $832k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $528k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $433k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $761k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $1.3M | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Development Institute Inc | $1,370,724 | 9 | 9% |
| Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College | $594,039 | 6 | 2% |
| The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc | $522,500 | 5 | 88% |
| Lincoln Christian University | $440,000 | 6 | 1% |
| OSF Healthcare System | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Clara's Manor Inc | $345,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation | $300,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Lincoln Economic Advancement & Development Inc | $270,000 | 4 | 35% |
| Central Illinois Veterans Commission | $155,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Rockford University | $94,537 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Woods Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: Henry Safford Peacock Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Tulsa Community Foundation · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Woods Foundation
- How much does The Woods Foundation give?
- The Woods Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $864,457 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Woods Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Woods Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Academic Development Institute Inc ($1.4M), Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College ($594k), The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc ($523k).
- Does The Woods Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Woods Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Woods Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry Safford Peacock Foundation, Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is The Woods Foundation based?
- The Woods Foundation is based in IL.
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