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The Woolard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$179k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 26
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Woolard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$179k23%
FY202311$188k18%
FY202221$293k48%
FY202123$332k30%
FY202026$181kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$575kAnimals$103kEducation$85kReligion$75kFood & Nutrition$73kHousing & Shelter$55kHuman Services$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Woolard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDelaware Art Museum Inc: $562,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDinerral Shavers Educational Fund: $33,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe St Bernard Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mary Campbell Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana First Foundation Inc: $9,900 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetChimp Haven Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Louisiana Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetZeus' Rescues Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Louisiana: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Tulip: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSon of a Saint: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Delaware Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Wildlife Federation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTeam Gleason Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Promise of Justice Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReconcile New Orleans Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of the Experienced Vote: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Verizon Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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.

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About The Woolard Family Foundation

How much does The Woolard Family Foundation give?
The Woolard Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $179,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Woolard Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Animals (9%), Education (7%).
Who are The Woolard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Delaware Art Museum Inc ($562k), Christ Church ($75k), Alley Cat Allies Inc ($50k).
Does The Woolard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Woolard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Woolard Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Foundation for Louisiana.
Where is The Woolard Family Foundation based?
The Woolard Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 50 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-PF 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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