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Woodrow Foundation at a glance

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Woodrow 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$356kHealth$18kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kReligion$8kPhilanthropy$8kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$822
Median grant
8
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY$52,028
THE SALVATION ARMY$822
UNION GOSPEL MISSION-SPOKANE$822
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INLAND NW$822
Individual grant recipient$822
PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$822
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW$822
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$822
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$822
AMERICAN RED CROSS$822
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-IRVING$822
AMERICAN LEGION$822
PROVAIL$822
INNOVIA FOUNDATION$822
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$822
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $822 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $673 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $673 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $516 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $516 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $507 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $507 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $507 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $507 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $464 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $331 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $331 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $277 → 14%CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: $277 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
IN
CA
CO
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 24 repeat orgs$516 to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$433k
$516

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WU
    WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $269k · revenue +15%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +9%
  • EH
    EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MD
    MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSN-TUCSON
    one grant, 2018 · $516
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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4
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare.…

Health
8
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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9
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
10
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
11
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
12
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Empire Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $268,819 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVERSITYWHITWORTH COLLEGE: $85,330 · OtherWHITWORTH COLLEGE+17 more: $56,292 · Other+17 moreEMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,097 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,097 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,097 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,581 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,097 · Human ServicesAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation: $2,811 · Human ServicesInnovia Foundation: $3,581 · Philanthropy
Education$268,819Other$141,622Health$15,872Human Services$6,908Philanthropy$3,581

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $268,819 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $4,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,581 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $3,581 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Legion Child Welfare Foundation: $2,811 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Legion: $1,286 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
  • Who funds American Legion Child Welfare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The American Legion ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Woodrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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