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Wodecroft Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $444k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $40,000 |
| CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $27,500 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING | $25,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $21,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF OHIO | $20,000 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $20,000 |
| PRO KIDS | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $12,500 |
| THE RIVERVIEW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCThe Christ Hospital Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +239%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +39%
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- CMCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +90%
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%- WPWESTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds THE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Gilbert Verney Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · King Spruce Company · The Warrington Foundation Co Fifth Third · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wodecroft Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Riverview School Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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