· Private foundation
Woodell Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k21 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $25,300 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $15,000 |
| GADSDEN ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $7,500 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY | $7,500 |
| CHAPELWOOD UMC | $5,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIE | $5,000 |
| VITAL LIVING | $2,500 |
| VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- RRROUNDUP RIVER RANCH9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +73%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital8× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +78%
- ASAgnes Scott College7× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CUCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- FOFRIENDS OF WEST FL PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $8k
- GSGEORGE SMATHERS LIBRARIESone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To provide compassionate, coordinated, family-centered care for children with a dedicated commitment to excellent patient outcomes, inclusive leadership and innovative pediatric research and education.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 38 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 — 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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMELIA ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
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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 Woodell Foundation Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.