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Woodard & Curran Foundation
Woodard & Curran Foundation engages the passion of the Woodard & Curran community to support nonprofit organizations that protect our water and environment.
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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Drylands Agroecology Ressearch Foundation | $75,000 |
| To Nizhoni Ani | $75,000 |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Save Barnegat Bay | $10,000 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $10,000 |
| Family Summits | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- DADrylands Agroecology Research Foundation2× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +37%
CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +101%- LFLiteracy for Environmental Justice3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- BLBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
- SMSUSTAINABLE MAPLE SHADE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TSThe San Diego River Park Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
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 mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Maple Shade Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 54 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 Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC ↗
- Who funds TO NIZHONI ANI ↗
- Who funds OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy for Environmental Justice ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDGE TO REEFS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds X-CEL INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE LAKES SOCIETY DBA MAINE LAKES ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds HEART OF BIDDEFORD ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MAPLE SHADE INC ↗
- Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERISTY FINANCING CORP ↗
- Who funds PHIPPSBURG LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCARBOROUGH MARSH ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
- Who funds WATER EDUCATION FOR LATINO LEADERS ↗
- Who funds New England Water Environment Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUMMITS INC ↗
- Who funds Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation ↗
- Who funds Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Impactassetsinc · The Nature Conservancy · The Pfizer 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 Woodard & Curran 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- X-Cel Inc — 1% of income from government
- Northwest Florida State College Foundation 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.