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Wood Dock 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $216k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON | $20,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY FILM COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART | $20,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER | $15,000 |
| WOODSTOCK MEMORIAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK | $10,000 |
| PHOTOWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS | $8,000 |
| DIAZ MEMORIAL AMBULANCE SERVICE | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS-SAUGERTIES | $2,500 |
| WOODSTOCK FARM FESTIVAL | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your 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 +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- PIPRATT INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $354k · revenue +28%
- UFUPSTATE FILMS LTD5× · 2021–2025 · $183k · revenue +303%
- CFCENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $30k
- WFWOODSTOCK FIRE DEPARTMENT 1one grant, 2019 · $27k
- RYRAISING YOUR AWARENESS ABOUT NARCOTICSone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The Organization s mission is the development and presentation of new art exhibits and programs.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock Film Festival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 50 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 PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY FILM COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Arts Society of Kingston Inc ↗
- Who funds Lemur Conservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK MEMORIAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPUS 40 INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MT MARION FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Photowork Foundation ↗
- Who funds KAUPO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Spectrum Services ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DIAZ MEMORIAL AMBULANCE SERVICE 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: Kvistad Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Douglas C James Charitable Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Thompson Family Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Novo Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Villchur Foundation · Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen · The Jedra Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Wood Dock 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% 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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