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Wood Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDWOOD FARMS | $62,000 |
| CANAL WINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $58,780 |
| FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY | $27,900 |
| CANAL WINCHESTER LOCAL SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CANAL WINCHESTER HUMAN SERVICES | $13,500 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FISH AND LOAVES FOOD FUNDRAISING EV | $10,000 |
| CANAL WINCHESTER SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
| FAITH UNTIED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| MERCURY ONE INC | $5,000 |
| KIDS GET CANCER TOO | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE | $3,000 |
| THE JOSSLYN CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CWCANAL WINCHESTER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +693% · 91% of their budget
- CWCANAL WINCHESTER LABOR DAY FESTIVAL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $400k · revenue +557%
- WFWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $153k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- PFPROGENY FAMILY TRAINING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- LLLEUKIEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MUMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue -1%
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 mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canal Winchester Art Guild. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 98 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 CANAL WINCHESTER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL WINCHESTER LABOR DAY FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Canal Winchester Human Services Corp ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION CANAL WINCHESTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PATH2FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds 1MATTERSORG ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · Harry C Moores Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Wood 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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