· 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CAMP DALLAS | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TIMBER POINTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $523k · revenue +42% · 88% of their budget
- OHOSF Healthcare System2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +12%
- SCST CLARA'S MANOR INC8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- RHREGIONAL HOUSING SUPPORTIVE SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- RRREFUGE RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
- LCLINCOLN COMMUNITY THEATREone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 107 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 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 ↗
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
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.
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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