· Private foundation
William M Wood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $946k
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $500,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $450,000 |
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $350,000 |
| KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $327,399 |
| ANDOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $299,999 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $189,999 |
| US NAVAL INSTITUTE | $116,500 |
| AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $114,560 |
| ANDOVER CENTER OF HISTORY | $75,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| IMMIGRANT CITY ARCHIVES INC | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
- LCLAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $447k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2022 · $488k
- TFTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $400k
- BABRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $400k
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.
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.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Description of organization mission the schepens eye research institute ("schepens") fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. through a continuum of discovery, the institute…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds AZOREAN MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
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: Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William M Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William M Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Andover Historical Society: 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc: 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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