· Private foundation
Wood Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY-NILES FACILITY | $250,000 |
| CURIOUS KIDS MUSUEM | $200,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH CARE CENTER | $100,000 |
| LOGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $80,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| GREATER NILES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NILES DISTRICT LIBRARY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- CKCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +29%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +177%
- LCLogan Community Resources Inc3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- YOYMCA of Greater Michiana1one grant, 2020 · $226k
- SHSpectrum Health Lakelandone grant, 2021 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $83k
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.
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Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
A member driven organization committed to providing quality professional park and recreation programs and services with fiscal integrity and progressive leadership to michigans recreation and parks trade.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.
To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.
To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Niles-Buchanan Meals On Wheels Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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 CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NILES DISTRICT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI ↗
- Who funds FERNWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds NILES-BUCHANAN MEALS ON WHEELS 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Edward & Irma Hunter Foundation · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjoseph · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Inc 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.
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