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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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$8.1MFood & Nutrition$7.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MArts & Culture$2.4MInternational$2.3MCivil Rights$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEducation$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $728k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$33,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REDF$220,000
SPARK MICROGRANTS$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
SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$110,000
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY: $160k → 11%FOOD & ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK: $150k → 22%SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS: $205k → 14%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $425k → 17%TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $110k → 16%Fair Food Network: $115k → 14%BLACK VOTERS MATTER FUND: $110k → 13%The 1833 Society: $250k → 7%Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $1.3M → 9%Friends of Acadia: $500k → 11%Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association: $1.0M → 13%Eastern Maine Medical Center: $250k → 15%INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY: $149k → 11%FOOD & ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK: $110k → 22%SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS: $150k → 14%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $365k → 17%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $750k → 9%Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association: $1.0M → 13%BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $300k → 13%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $750k → 9%MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $750k → 13%SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $120k → 11%MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $750k → 13%NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION: $125k → 11%Maine Farmland Trust: $500k → 13%NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION: $125k → 11%SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $210k → 14%REDF: $220k → 10%New Venture Fund: $200k → 14%REDF: $220k → 10%REDF: $182k → 10%REDF: $167k → 10%Acumen Fund: $189k → 17%ACUMEN FUND INC: $189k → 17%ACUMEN FUND INC: $183k → 17%Acumen Fund: $167k → 17%King Baudouin Foundation United States: $114k → 17%PHI: $174k → 17%PHI: $167k → 17%The Center for Reproductive Rights: $500k → 17%THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $500k → 17%SPARK MICROGRANTS: $220k → 17%SPARK MICROGRANTS: $220k → 17%SPARK MICROGRANTS: $215k → 17%Spark MicroGrants: $200k → 17%FoodCorps: $115k → 17%Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $405k → 17%Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $250k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Woodcock Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Woodcock Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 57 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
68

Total granted

$22M
$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+36%

Still filing today

77%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • MO
    MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +71% · 28% of their budget
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    4× · 2018–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +5%
  • FP
    FREE PRESS
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MC
    Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • MO
    Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • MF
    Maine Farmland Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +198%
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
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
5
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
10
Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment
11
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
12
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 148 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/89
Grantees still filing
57/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $911,000 · OtherTHE YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION…Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $750,000 · OtherMaine Coast Heritage TrustMaine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association: $750,000 · OtherMaine Organic Farmers and Gardeners A…FOOD & ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK: $460,000 · OtherFoodCorps: $425,349 · OtherTHE 1833 SOCIETY: $500,000 · OtherEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $500,000 · Other+89 more: $6,558,732 · Other+89 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,500,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Tr…YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $535,500 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE TO YUKONFriends of Acadia: $500,000 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $479,435 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DB…SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $420,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $380,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTA…NEW VENTURE FUND: $350,000 · Environment+8 more: $575,900 · Environment+8 moreMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $4,250,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMER…Maine Farmland Trust: $500,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland TrustNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $415,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG FARME…INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $369,500 · Food & NutritionINSTITUTE FOR AGRICU…FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $321,300 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $184,000 · Food & NutritionROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,444,800 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER …REDF: $955,000 · PhilanthropyREDFTIDES FOUNDATION: $480,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…Goodnation Foundation Inc: $350,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation F…HOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $185,075 · PhilanthropyACUMEN FUND INC: $909,500 · InternationalSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $862,500 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $164,366 · InternationalAlianza Americas: $138,000 · International+2 more: $65,400 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $450,712 · Civil RightsUltraViolet Education Fund: $327,500 · Civil RightsThe Center for Election Innovation & Research: $220,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $12,726 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS: $1,057,500 · Arts & CultureEQUIS INSTITUTE: $220,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $106,000 · Arts & CultureWATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$10,855,081Environment$6,740,835Food & Nutrition$6,039,800Philanthropy$3,564,875International$2,139,766Civil Rights$2,010,938Arts & Culture$1,463,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $4,250,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,500,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,444,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREE PRESS: $1,057,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetREDF: $955,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $909,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $862,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1833 SOCIETY: $500,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $500,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $479,435 over 3y, 14% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $450,712 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $420,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $415,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $380,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $369,500 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetIDEOORG: $340,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $327,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $321,300 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $230,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Center for Election Innovation & Research: $220,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $220,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEQUIS INSTITUTE: $220,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBEATS RHYMES AND LIFE: $178,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetPARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC: $166,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $164,366 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAlianza Americas: $138,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $110,050 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $106,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $104,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIsland Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetVillage Of Wisdom: $73,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $64,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOLIDAGO FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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.

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.

The Ford FoundationTides FoundationRsf Social Finance IncWK Kellogg FoundationThe William & Flora H…Amalgamated Charitabl…The David and Lucile …ImpactassetsincNew Venture FundRockefeller Brothers …Rockefeller Philanthr…Marin Community Found…
The Ford FoundationNY32× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Woodcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Woodcock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Woodcock Foundation 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 148 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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