Ohio · Private foundation
Wood-Byer 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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Wood-Byer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 26 | $78k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $78k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $88k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $88k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $80k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $78k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $79k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cancer Support Community - Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Services | $32,000 | 9 | 0% |
| De Paul Cristo Rey High School | $27,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Crayons and Beyond Inc | $25,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Childhood Food Solutions | $22,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($304k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wood-Byer 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: Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Meisel Family Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
How this is measured
About Wood-Byer Foundation
- How much does Wood-Byer Foundation give?
- Wood-Byer Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $88,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wood-Byer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Religion (18%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Wood-Byer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ($35k), Cancer Support Community - Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky ($35k), Jewish Family Services ($32k).
- Does Wood-Byer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wood-Byer 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 Wood-Byer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles H Dater Foundation Inc, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Wood-Byer Foundation based?
- Wood-Byer Foundation is based in OH.
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