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Wood Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST NORBERT COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST WILLEBRORD PARISH | $1,000 |
| PILLARS HOMELESS SHELTER | $1,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $500 |
| SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE | $500 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $500 |
| ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING | $500 |
| CANARY FUND | $250 |
| NAMI | $250 |
| WHATSOEVER YOU DO INC | $250 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $250 |
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- DPDANCES PATRELLE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +15%
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC3× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
- PIPILLARS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- UPUNIQUE PROJECTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +240%
- NCNUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +9%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sisters Rising Worldwide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 DANCES PATRELLE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHATSOEVER YOU DO INC ↗
- Who funds NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters Rising Worldwide ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Rosemary L & John P Mortensen Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America 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 Family 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.
- Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts 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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