How much does Woodlawn Foundation give?

Woodlawn Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $4,060,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Woodlawn Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).

Who are Woodlawn Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Okizu Foundation ($698k), Mbolden Change ($680k), Wildcare ($590k).

Does Woodlawn Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Woodlawn Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atkinson Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Where is Woodlawn Foundation based?

Woodlawn Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · 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).

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2025: 25
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 43; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $59M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Woodlawn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	45	$4.1M	18%
FY2024	25	$1.3M	16%
FY2023	41	$3.1M	5%
FY2022	37	$1.6M	5%
FY2021	43	$2.1M	16%
FY2020	36	$1.3M	6%
FY2019	36	$1.2M	8%
FY2018	35	$1.2M	14%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.6MHealth$2.2MFood & Nutrition$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MEmployment$1.5MArts & Culture$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MAnimals$1.2MOther$0

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
Okizu Foundation	$697,617	8	4%
Mbolden Change	$680,000	8	11%
Wildcare	$590,000	7	4%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre	$580,000	9	1%
The Bread Project	$580,000	8	22%
Jobtrain Inc	$580,000	6	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco	$575,000	7	1%
On Lok Day Services	$575,000	6	3%
Curiodyssey	$550,000	8	2%
Holy Family Day Home	$525,000	8	2%

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All grantees of Woodlawn Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Okizu Foundation	$697,617	8	4%
Mbolden Change	$680,000	8	11%
Wildcare	$590,000	7	4%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre	$580,000	9	1%
The Bread Project	$580,000	8	22%
Jobtrain Inc	$580,000	6	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco	$575,000	7	1%
On Lok Day Services	$575,000	6	3%
Curiodyssey	$550,000	8	2%
Holy Family Day Home	$525,000	8	2%
Jefferson Union High School District	$505,000	7	n/a
World Learning Inc	$500,000	7	0%
Ageup Inc	$490,000	9	13%
Lifemoves	$490,000	7	0%
City of South San Francisco	$485,500	9	n/a
Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center	$449,000	7	4%
Richmond District Neighborhood Center Inc	$430,000	6	2%
Vallejo Senior Citizens Council	$420,000	7	37%
Rebuilding Together Peninsula	$385,000	8	3%
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy	$365,000	8	3%
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation	$350,000	8	6%
Mission Graduates	$335,000	4	1%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc	$325,000	6	0%
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER	$320,000	4	1%
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund	$320,000	7	1%
CASA of San Mateo County	$315,000	9	3%
Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center	$310,000	7	1%
Dyf	$295,000	7	4%
San Francisco Zoological Society	$280,000	7	0%
The Marsh A Breeding Ground For New Perf	$255,000	9	3%
Pediatric Dental Initiative of the North Coast Inc	$245,000	5	2%
Pacifica School Volunteers	$235,000	9	37%
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$235,000	9	0%
Community Music Center	$205,000	5	1%
Peninsula Volunteers Inc	$195,000	5	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula	$190,000	3	0%
Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club Inc	$175,000	5	2%
Athletic Scholars Advancement Program	$170,000	4	n/a
Mission High Foundation	$160,000	5	55%
Sonrisas Dental Health Inc	$160,000	3	2%
Bay Area Community Resources Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center	$125,000	2	1%
Health Connected	$121,000	7	2%
Samaritan House	$105,000	3	0%
San Mateo-Foster City Community Education Foundation	$95,000	4	4%
Make It Home - Bay Area	$90,000	2	2%
San Mateo County Sheriff's Office	$66,500	8	n/a
Dress for Success San Francisco	$65,000	2	1%
St Anthony Foundation	$60,000	2	n/a
NAMI San Mateo County	$55,000	2	5%
Scholastic Interest Group Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	32%
Senior Coastsiders Inc	$45,000	1	2%
California Scottish Rite Foundation	$40,000	2	1%
Bayshore Elementary School District	$35,000	2	n/a
San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation	$35,000	2	4%
On Lok Senior Health Services	$35,000	1	0%
Daly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative	$30,000	1	1%
There With Care of the Bay Area	$30,000	1	n/a
Bay Area Scores	$30,000	1	2%
Coastside Adult Day Health Center	$25,000	1	1%
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano	$25,000	1	0%
Close Up Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley	$25,000	1	0%
Pacifica Resource Center	$25,000	1	1%
Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$25,000	1	0%
San Francisco Food Bank	$25,000	1	0%
Mission Hospice & Home Care Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Operation Santa Claus	$7,500	4	n/a

Woodlawn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Atkinson FoundationCA50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Woodlawn Foundation

How much does Woodlawn Foundation give?: Woodlawn Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $4,060,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Woodlawn Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Woodlawn Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Okizu Foundation ($698k), Mbolden Change ($680k), Wildcare ($590k).
Does Woodlawn Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Woodlawn Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atkinson Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Woodlawn Foundation based?: Woodlawn Foundation is based in CA.