· Public charity
Woodlawn Foundation
To bring about civic betterment and social improvements and promote the common good and general welfare of the people of the san francisco bay area through contributions to nonprofit organizations exempt under internal revenue code section 501(c)(3).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MBOLDEN (FORMERLY MY NEW RED SHOES) | $300,000 |
| ON LOK DAY SERVICES | $270,000 |
| RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $220,000 |
| JOB TRAIN INC | $210,000 |
| WILDCARE | $195,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $195,000 |
| LIFEMOVES (INN VISION SHELTER NETWORK) | $180,000 |
| OKIZU | $150,000 |
| SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $150,000 |
| RISING SUN CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY | $145,000 |
| DALY CITY YOUTH HEALTH CENTER | $135,000 |
| WEINGARTEN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $130,000 |
| BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE | $130,000 |
| MISSION GRADUATES (FORMERLY ASAP) | $125,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME | $125,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% of those 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- OFOKIZU FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $698k · revenue +100%
- WWILDCARE7× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +1%
- JIJOBTRAIN INC6× · 2018–2025 · $580k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- OLON LOK SENIOR HEALTH SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +80%
- BABAY AREA SCORESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +278%
- DCDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +48%
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.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 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. 63 of the 70 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 OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MBOLDEN CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ON LOK DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds AGEUP INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEJO SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR EQUINE FACILITATED THERAPY ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA of San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds DYF ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Marsh A Breeding Ground For New Perf ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds MID-PENINSULA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Mission High Foundation ↗
- Who funds SONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
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: Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Monterra Community Fund · Sand Hill Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Bruno Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
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 Woodlawn Foundation 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.
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.