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The Woolard Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH$75,000
ALLEY CAT ALLIES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE-BIDEN INSTITUTE$12,000
WOMENS'S SPORTS FOUNDATION$10,000
HSUS$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
ST BERNARD PROJECT$10,000
DINERRAL SHAVERS EDUCATIONAL FUND$10,000
ZEUS RESCUES$5,000
LASPCA$4,000
CHIMP HAVEN$2,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%MARY CAMPBELL CENTER: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%TEAM GLEASON: $1k → 23%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$956k · 26 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$956k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DA
    DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $562k · revenue +113%
  • AC
    Alley Cat Allies Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +86%
  • WS
    Womens Sports Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • SB
    Sunday Breakfast Mission
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +7%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY DELAWARE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
3
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp

Who we are: southeast louisiana legal services (slls) is the largest non-profit law firm in louisiana whose mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community…

Crime & Legal
4
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.

Animals
5
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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6
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
7
Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc

Louisiana appleseed solves our state's toughest problems at their root cause by advocating for access to justice, opportunity, and education. we believe that our state will be stronger through fair and equitable access to the courts, the…

Human Services
8
Louisiana Spca Foundation Inc

To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
9
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
10
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
11
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
12
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Louisiana; the most unlike its peers is Dinerral Shavers Educational Fund. 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

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $562,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC+2 more: $12,900 · Arts & CultureCHRIST CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCHSunday Breakfast Mission: $40,000 · OtherSunday Breakfast MissionUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE-BIDEN INSTITUTE: $32,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE-BIDEN INSTITUTESBP: $25,000 · OtherSBPMEALS ON WHEELS: $22,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSSALVATION ARMY DELAWARE: $20,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $20,000 · OtherStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $16,000 · Other+25 more: $116,000 · Other+25 moreAlley Cat Allies Inc: $50,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INC: $7,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA INC: $6,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsDINERRAL SHAVERS EDUCATIONAL FUND: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A SAINT: $2,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentWomens Sports Foundation: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $22,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$574,900Other$406,500Animals$74,000Youth Development$36,500Recreation & Sports$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Food & Nutrition$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $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
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.

The Greater New Orlea…Shell USA Company Fou…Foundation for Louisi…Silicon Valley Commun…Welfare Foundation IncDelaware Community Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Verizon FoundationTides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Raymond James Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Woolard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woolard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Autism Delaware Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The Mary Campbell Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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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