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Woodell Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,300
Organizations funded a year
7 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$995k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Woodell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$123k28%
FY202418$85k17%
FY202320$90k30%
FY202216$99k0%
FY202115$110k7%
FY202017$77k6%
FY201915$83k33%
FY20187$40k0%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$286kRecreation & Sports$143kHealth$118kReligion$115kEducation$85kYouth Development$32kHuman Services$17kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
CT
CA
CO
VA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Roundup River Ranch$142,93591%
Texas Children's Hospital$81,00080%
Agnes Scott College$47,00070%
Houston Symphony Society$42,50080%
Citrus County 4-H Association Inc$27,500510%
Vita Living Inc$14,50070%
Emory University$12,50060%
University of Florida$12,5002n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10,00030%
Steel Magnolia Moms$9,50066%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($358k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodell Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoundup River Ranch: $142,935 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $81,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $47,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCitrus County 4-H Association Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetVita Living Inc: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSteel Magnolia Moms: $9,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmelia Island Chamber Music Festival: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends for Life: $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood: $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Veterans Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouthpower365: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridges to Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Humane Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Woodell Foundation Inc

How much does Woodell Foundation Inc give?
Woodell Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $123,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Woodell Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Health (15%).
Who are Woodell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Roundup River Ranch ($143k), Texas Children's Hospital ($81k), Agnes Scott College ($47k).
Does Woodell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Woodell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Woodell Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Woodell Foundation Inc based?
Woodell Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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