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The Woods Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $141,916 |
| LINCOLN ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT DEVELO | $100,000 |
| TIMBER POINTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $72,500 |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIST #27 | $36,126 |
| SOUTHERN IL UNIVERSITY | $35,429 |
| LincolnLogan Food Pantry | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP CENTRAL IL | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $21,868 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $18,956 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $14,598 |
| MONMOUTH COLLEGE | $14,470 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAMP DALLAS | $10,000 |
| BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- TTTHE TIMBER POINTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $523k · revenue +42% · 88% of their budget
- SCST CLARA'S MANOR INC8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +79%
- ALABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2023 · $300k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- RHREGIONAL HOUSING SUPPORTIVE SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- RRREFUGE RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
- LCLINCOLN COMMUNITY THEATREone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
To provide traditional educational programs in diverse fields of study, delivered by experienced educators, and leading to outstanding employment opportunities for American and international students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Gfwc Lincoln Womans Club. 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 70 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 107 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 ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY AKA LINCOLN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TIMBER POINTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare System ↗
- Who funds ST CLARA'S MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS VETERANS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN-LOGAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greenville College ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF LOGAN COUNTY INC D/B/A OASIS SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAND OF LINCOLN HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds EUREKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: 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
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 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.
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 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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