Colorado · Private foundation
Woodford 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.
- $372k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $79k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Woodford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $372k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $368k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $376k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $409k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $422k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $323k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $355k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $388k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $460,000 | 9 | 0% |
| State Policy Network | $165,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Freedomworks Foundation Inc | $142,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $127,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Citizens for Self-Governance | $120,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Steamboat Institute | $96,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Independence Institute | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($383k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodford Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · The Armstrong Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Pierre F & Enid Goodrich Foundation
How this is measured
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About Woodford Foundation
- How much does Woodford Foundation give?
- Woodford Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $372,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Woodford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Public Benefit (27%), Civil Rights (17%).
- Who are Woodford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($460k), State Policy Network ($165k), Institute for Justice ($150k).
- Does Woodford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woodford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Woodford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is Woodford Foundation based?
- Woodford Foundation is based in CO.
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