Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Woodland 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.
- $147k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Woodland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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 | 6 | $145k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $390k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $240k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $295k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $395k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $216k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pbs Foundation | $236,500 | 5 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medstar Health Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maret School Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sesame Workshop | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bretton Woods Committee | $30,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pbs Foundation | $236,500 | 5 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medstar Health Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maret School Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sesame Workshop | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bretton Woods Committee | $30,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Center for Global Development | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Urban Institute | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Archives Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The George Washington University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rise Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| White House Historical Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Empire Dragons NYC Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Pen Faulkner Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Child Research Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($643k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodland 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.
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How this is measured
About Woodland Foundation
- How much does Woodland Foundation give?
- Woodland Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $147,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Woodland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Arts & Culture (19%), Social Science (13%).
- Who are Woodland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pbs Foundation ($237k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($125k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($110k).
- Does Woodland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woodland 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 Woodland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Woodland Foundation based?
- Woodland Foundation is based in DC.
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