· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| FRIEDMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE | $10,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CLARE BOOTH LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATIONTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PACIFIC WAR | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodhouse Family Foundation Attn John C Woodhouse II. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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