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Wood Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$675k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$531kArts & Culture$400kEducation$395kFood & Nutrition$254kPublic Benefit$205kCrime & Legal$106kCommunity Improvement$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$80,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA of Southwest Michigan: $23k → 15%Logan Community Resource Center: $160k → 13%CURIOUS KIDS MUSUEM: $200k → 15%Logan Community Resource Center: $80k → 13%Curious Kids Musuem: $100k → 15%LOGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $80k → 13%Curious Kids Musuem: $100k → 15%Logan Center: $30k → 13%Lakeland Health Foundation: $50k → 15%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 15%Lakeland Health Foundation: $25k → 15%United Way of Southwest MI: $20k → 15%Salvation Army: $260k → 15%Salvation Army: $260k → 15%SALVATION ARMY-NILES FACILITY: $250k → 15%YMCA of Greater Michiana1: $166k → 15%COREWELL HEALTH CARE CENTER: $100k → 15%Spectrum Health Lakeland: $100k → 15%Corewell Health Care Center: $100k → 15%Niles Police Dept: $83k → 15%NILES-BUCHANON YMCA: $60k → 15%CITY OF NILES: $53k → 15%Niles High School: $50k → 15%Lake Michigan College: $50k → 15%Niles-Buchanan YMCA: $50k → 15%LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%Niles Downtown Development Authority: $50k → 15%Niles YMCA: $50k → 15%City of Niles: $50k → 15%Niles Fire Department: $48k → 15%Niles Community Schools: $40k → 15%Brandywine Community Schools: $40k → 15%The Salvation Army: $33k → 15%City of Niles: $32k → 15%Friends of Niles District Library: $30k → 15%YMCA of Greater Michiana1: $30k → 15%CITY OF NILES: $30k → 15%YMCA of Greater Michiana1: $30k → 15%YMCA of Greater Indiana-Summer My Way: $25k → 15%Friends of the Niles District Library: $25k → 15%YMCA of Southwest Michigan: $25k → 15%Niles Community Schools: $25k → 15%Spectrum Health Lakeland: $25k → 15%NILES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $20k → 15%NILES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $20k → 15%Niles Community Schools: $20k → 15%NILES DISTRICT LIBRARY: $20k → 15%NILES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$2.4M
$862k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

27%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CK
    CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +29%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +177%
  • LC
    Logan Community Resources Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA of Greater Michiana1
    one grant, 2020 · $226k
  • SH
    Spectrum Health Lakeland
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $83k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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2
Berrien County Council for Children

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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3
Barry County United Way

None

Philanthropy
4
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
5
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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6
Michigan Recreation & Park Association

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.

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7
Michigan Science Center

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.

Education
8
United Way of Greater Central Michigan

United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.

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9
Michigan's Children

To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.

Human Services
10
Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Association for Children's Mental Health

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.

Health
12
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $580,752 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLogan Community Resource Center: $320,000 · OtherLogan Community Resource CenterSALVATION ARMY-NILES FACILITY: $250,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY-NILES FACILITYYMCA of Greater Michiana1: $226,000 · OtherYMCA of Greater Michiana1NILES CITY MICHIGAN: $205,373 · OtherNILES CITY MICHIGANNILES COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $201,500 · OtherNILES COMMUNITY SCHOOLSCorewell Health Care Center: $200,000 · OtherCorewell Health Care CenterLakeland Health Foundation: $125,000 · OtherSpectrum Health Lakeland: $125,000 · Other+18 more: $724,249 · Other+18 moreCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM: $400,000 · Arts & CultureCURIOUS KIDS…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $64,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF NILES DISTRICT LIBRARY: $30,000 · EducationCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI: $22,500 · Crime & LegalFERNWOOD INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentEDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,957,874Arts & Culture$400,000Philanthropy$64,500Education$30,000Crime & Legal$22,500Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM: $400,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $92,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $64,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI: $22,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFERNWOOD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIANA FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNILES-BUCHANAN MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Berrien Community Fou…Edward & Irma Hunter …Michigan Gateway Comm…The McLoughlin Family…Corewell Health Group…Lakeland Health Found…United Way of Southwe…Judd Leighton Foundat…1st Source Bank Found…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Berrien Community Foundation IncMI21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wood Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wood Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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