· Private foundation
Woodin Laboratory
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| CHILDREN OF LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $15,000 |
| YOSEMTE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IRONWOOD FOREST | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE ASYLUM PROGRAM OF AZ | $6,200 |
| WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECT | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TUCSON'S BIRTHPLACE | $5,000 |
| IRONWOOD TREE EXPERIENCE | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
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.
As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of the grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of the grand…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sky Island Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Studio Museum in Harlem. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TUCSON'S BIRTHPLACE ↗
- Who funds BORDERLINKS ↗
- Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Patagoniaorg · 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 Woodin Laboratory 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.
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.
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