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The Woodard Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROW RIVER FIRE RESPONSE | $50,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $45,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE PROSPECTORS AND GOLD DIGGERS | $42,500 |
| SPIRIT OF BOHEMIA MINING DAYS | $40,000 |
| COTTAGE GROVE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,900 |
| PAWS AND WHISKERS SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| OREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| KIDS FIRST CENTER | $15,000 |
| WELCOME HOME ANIMAL SHELTER | $13,500 |
| COTTAGE GROVE MUSEUM | $13,000 |
| SOUTH LANE MENTAL HEALTH | $10,500 |
| BOHEMIA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN | $10,000 |
| EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| LANE COUNTY DIAPER BANK | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 23 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- JGJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON4× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +46%
- CGCOTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2018–2025 · $89k · revenue +342% · 71% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC5× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +54%
Funded once
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +156%
OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +53%- PCPEACEHEALTH COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.
The mission of the eugene area chamber of commerce is to promote a healthy local economy by influencing business success, public policy, and community development.
To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.
The mission of the oma is to speak as the unified voice of medicine in oregon; advocate for a sustainable, equitable, and accessible healthcare environment; and energize physicians and physician assistants by building and supporting their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bohemia Gold Mining Museum. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 211 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WESTERN OREGON EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ROW RIVER FIRE RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds EUGENE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPHELIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds EUGENE ACTIVE 2030 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eugene Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH LANE FAMILY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF COTTAGE GROVE ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELROD CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING ↗
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: Chambers Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Autzen Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Lane Community Health Council · Faye & Lucille Stewart Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · The Collins 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 The Woodard Family 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.
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- South Lane Family Nursery Inc — 58% of income from government
- Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
- Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- Aprovecho — 30% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Row River Fire Response — 26% of income from government
- Metropolitan Affordable Housing Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- Connected Lane County — 17% of income from government
- Instaballet — 15% of income from government
- Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah — 14% of income from government
- Forests Today and Forever — 10% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Oregon Equestrian Trails — 7% of income from government
- Bring Recycling — 7% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cottage Theatre — 5% of income from government
- South Lane Mental Health Services Inc — 5% of income from government
- Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras — 4% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Ballet Fantastique — 2% of income from government
- Chamber Music Amici — 1% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Eugene Concert Choir — 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jasper Mountain — 0% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Aviation Historical Society — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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