· Private foundation
Wood Family Memorial Trust
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 $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORIA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-VICTORIA | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| VICTORIA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINIS | $15,000 |
| AFFECTIONATE ARMS | $15,000 |
| HOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS | $12,500 |
| SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $10,000 |
| VICTORIA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-VICTORIA | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA | $10,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| GOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANIT | $7,500 |
| FOSTER PARENTS OF VICTORIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS7× · 2019–2025 · $153k · revenue +37%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA IN9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +14%
- FPFOSTER PARENTS OF VICTORIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- VCVICTORIA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- VSVICTORIA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BBBARBARA BAUER BRIGGS FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2018 · $12k
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 primary purpose of the organization is to establish and maintain a network within and on behalf of the faith based, non-profit, government, business, volunteers, and other organizations and agencies which will provided coordinated long…
Provide training and support to the fire department for the citizens of cove, texas
To foster the preservation, protection, and development of historically significant artifacts and properties in the natural and build environment of victoria county through education, advocacy, and acquistions; and to perpetuate those…
To promote a unified image of the business district and attractive quality image of downtown victoria, texas. economic restructuring and repurposing of old buildings to stimulate investment in property. training for managers and board…
The mission of victoria county volunteer fire department is to provide a superior level of fire control, rescue and emergency medical service to the citizens of victoria county and the airport community, while continually striving to…
To enhance the livability of victoria by beautification through a sense of pride and ownership.
Provide shelter and relief for victims of domestic abuse
The cat spring volunteer fire department was established to provide emergency services and fire protection for the city of cat spring, texas and surrounding area within the county of austin.
Historical preservation of vineland rail depot.
To provide free or low income educational services and or resources to individuals in the community
Support of the Victoria Public Library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Christian Assistance Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Cole Ohrt Walk Strong. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 63 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 MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA IN ↗
- Who funds AFFECTIONATE ARMS ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FOSTER PARENTS OF VICTORIA INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE POINTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BAY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS BUSINESS & EDUCATION CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS WEEKEND ↗
- Who funds NURSERY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA BALLET THEATRE ↗
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: Dick Albert & Mary Charitable Tr · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Crossroads Foundation Crossroads Foundation · United Way of the Crossroads · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation · Galvan Family Charitable Foundation · South Texas Charitable Foundation · Georgia and William S Dubose Fnd
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 Memorial Trust 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.
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.