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Woodcock 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION | $750,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $750,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $365,300 |
| BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| FREE PRESS | $275,000 |
| THE YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE | $225,500 |
| SPARK MICROGRANTS | $220,000 |
| REDF | $220,000 |
| ACUMEN FUND INC | $183,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY | $160,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $150,000 |
| FOOD & ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION | $125,000 |
| TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND | $110,000 |
| SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND | $110,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Woodcock Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k 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
- MOMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +71% · 28% of their budget
Maine Coast Heritage Trust4× · 2018–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +5%- FPFREE PRESS4× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MOMaine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Associationone grant, 2021 · $750k
- MCMaine Coast Heritage Trustone grant, 2021 · $750k
- MFMaine Farmland Trustgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +198%
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soapbox the Feminist Foundation 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 22 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 150 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 MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds REDF ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
- Who funds Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen ↗
- Who funds THE 1833 SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds IDEOORG ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Election Innovation & Research ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL ↗
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: The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Marin Community 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 Woodcock 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.
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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