· Private foundation
Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN MO RANCH ASSEMBLY | $200,000 |
| WESLAYAN UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $26,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICSFUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $13,500 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| FRIEDMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE | $10,000 |
| THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATIONTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PACIFIC WAR | $10,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CLARE BOOTH LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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 10% of Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II’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 +35% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
- PMPRESBYTERIAN MO-RANCH ASSEMBLY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NTNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -2%
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…
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.
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Tuberous Sclerosis Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MO-RANCH ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PATRIOT FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.