· Public charity
The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation
The Mission of the Way Forward Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for those living with paralysis.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $172,882 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $207,419 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,537 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jackson Health Foundation Inc | $39,669 |
| Sabrina Cohen Foundation | $26,000 |
| Shake-a-Leg Miami Inc | $20,000 |
| I Am Able Fitness | $18,000 |
| The Impossible Dream Inc | $15,000 |
| Empower SCI Summer Camp | $10,626 |
| Active Disabled Americans | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PossAbility Unlimited | $10,000 |
| Northeast PassageUNH System | $7,000 |
| Spinal Cord Injury Gr So Fl | $6,587 |
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $248k · revenue +192%
- TBTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +129%
- TITHE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- THTHE HERALD CHARITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -44%
- BFBARNABAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -8%
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.
Spinal cord injury network helps individuals and their families overwhelmed by the trauma of spinal cord injury to live healthy, productive lives making the difficult road of spinal cord injury easier
To simplify the difficult transition into life with paralysis for injured persons and their support team.to inspire and empower the paralysis community through valuable information and rehabilitative outings.to support paralysis related…
To provide a platform of advocacy, education, and research, communication adaptive sports and recreation for veterans paralyzed as a result of spinal cord injury or dysfunction.
The Morton Cure Paralysis Fund MCPF is a nonprofit organization committed to finding a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other disorders of the central nervous system. MCPF is also a community of people that provides…
Help the spinal cord injury and related paralysis community through adaptive exercise and integrative therapy programs
The foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding research and providing therapy with adaptive equipment to members living with paralysis through grants, advocacy and providing services for those who qualify.
To create local and national programs to raise public awareness for spinal cord injury victims through newly diagnosed programs and literature, education and support, outreach services, advocacy, wellness programs through charitable means,…
ASF Adaptive Sports is a division of Action Sports Foundation, a Florida based 501c3 charitable organization whose mission is to promote responsibility and goodwill throughout the community through the platform of action sports.
To reach, inspire, support & empower individuals with spinal cord injuries
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shake a Leg Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jackson Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds Sabrina Cohen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI SCI WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds Empower Spinal Cord Injury Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Camp PossAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds SPINAL CORD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP OF SOUTH FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE HERALD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION 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: Christopher Reeve Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% 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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