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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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$499kRecreation & Sports$261kEducation$23kReligion$6k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $172,882, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,419 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,537 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
$10,626
Median grant
6
States reached
$342k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PossAbility Unlimited$10,000
Active Disabled Americans$10,000
Northeast PassageUNH System$7,000
Spinal Cord Injury Gr So Fl$6,587
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Spinal Cord Injury Gr So Fl: $7k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$739k · 8 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$739k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-8%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JH
    JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $248k · revenue +192%
  • TB
    THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +129%
  • TI
    THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HERALD CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -49%
  • BF
    BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -8%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Spine Institute Foundation
Health
2
Spinal Cord Injury Network International

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

Health
3
Spinal Research Foundation D/B/a National Spine Health Foundation
Health
4
DETERMINED2HEAL Foundation Inc

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…

Health
5
Central Florida Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc

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.

—
6
The Mobility Independence Foundation Inc
Human Services
7
Morton Cure Paralysis Fund

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…

Health
8
Neuability

Help the spinal cord injury and related paralysis community through adaptive exercise and integrative therapy programs

Health
9
The Gary Balletto Foundation

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.

—
10
Move At the Speed of Life

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,…

Health
11
Action Sports Foundation Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
12
Sciboston Inc

To reach, inspire, support & empower individuals with spinal cord injuries

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shake a Leg Miami Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $248,007 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $112,000 · HealthTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INCSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $81,706 · HealthSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INCMIAMI SCI WELLNESS INC: $48,000 · HealthMIAMI SCI WELLNESS INC+2 more: $20,626 · HealthTHE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC: $95,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE IMPOSSIBLE DREA…ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC: $37,975 · Recreation & SportsACTIVE DISABLED AME…Sabrina Cohen Foundation Inc: $103,592 · PhilanthropySabrina Cohen …UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC: $6,556 · OtherSPINAL CORD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $6,587 · Human ServicesBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Religion
Health$510,339Recreation & Sports$132,975Philanthropy$103,592Other$29,056Human Services$6,587Religion$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $248,007 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $112,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSabrina Cohen Foundation Inc: $103,592 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC: $95,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $81,706 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMIAMI SCI WELLNESS INC: $48,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC: $37,975 over 4y, 19% of budgetEmpower Spinal Cord Injury Incorporated: $10,626 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCamp PossAbility Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $6,587 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC: $6,556 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Christopher Reeve Fou…The Miami Foundation …Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christopher Reeve FoundationNJ19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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