Texas · Private foundation
The Wooldridge Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $192k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $138k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Wooldridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $192k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $23k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $13k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $95k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $55k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana | $60,000 | 2 | 16% |
| St Mary of Carmel School Inc | $55,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc | $39,500 | 9 | 0% |
| St Joseph Residence Inc | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Educational Opportunities Inc | $34,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bishop Dunne Catholic School Inc | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Church of the Incarnation | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| DME Exchange of Dallas Inc | $10,224 | 1 | 3% |
| St Patrick Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana | $60,000 | 2 | 16% |
| St Mary of Carmel School Inc | $55,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc | $39,500 | 9 | 0% |
| St Joseph Residence Inc | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Educational Opportunities Inc | $34,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bishop Dunne Catholic School Inc | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Church of the Incarnation | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| DME Exchange of Dallas Inc | $10,224 | 1 | 3% |
| St Patrick Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holy Trinity Seminary | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Augustine Catholic Church | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Augusta Art Guild | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Center of Dallas | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Augusta College Echo Hall Association | $1,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Refugee Services of Texas Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wooldridge Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Wooldridge Foundation
- How much does The Wooldridge Foundation give?
- The Wooldridge Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $191,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wooldridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are The Wooldridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana ($60k), St Mary of Carmel School Inc ($55k), The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc ($40k).
- Does The Wooldridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wooldridge 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 Wooldridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax.
- Where is The Wooldridge Foundation based?
- The Wooldridge Foundation is based in TX.
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