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Woodruff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$410k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$590kReligion$316kCommunity Improvement$179kEducation$172kYouth Development$120kCivil Rights$108kArts & Culture$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE$55,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$35,000
FIRST YEAR CLEVELAND (CWRU)$30,000
MAY DUGAN CENTER$25,000
STELLA MARIS$25,000
OHIO GUIDESTONE$25,000
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU$20,000
BEECHBROOK$20,000
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO$15,000
THRIVE FOR CHANGE$15,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC$15,000
LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY$15,000
IDEASTREAM PUBLIC MEDIA$10,000
FRONTLINE SERVICE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $536k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $14k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $25k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $15k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $35k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $25k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $16k → 17%THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDR: $10k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $20k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%FRONTLINE SERVICES: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $18k → 17%US TOGETHER INC: $17k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $15k → 17%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $13k → 17%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 48 repeat orgs$631k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
30

Total granted

$3.7M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+37%

Still filing today

77%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • SM
    STELLA MARIS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +172%
  • LM
    LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    Cleveland Christian Home Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $158k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER OF
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADV COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +43%
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
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
2
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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3
Community Support Services Inc

Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…

Health
4
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
5
New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio

Health
6
Compass Family & Community Services

Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.

Human Services
7
Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center

To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.

Health
8
Maumee Valley Guidance Center Inc

To provide behavioral healthcare services for the continual enhancement of the quality of life across the life span, emphasizing treatment, community involvement, and innovative programs.

Health
9
Unison Behavioral Health Group Inc

Unison behavioral health group, inc. is a community mental health agency that provides mental health and addiction services to lucas and wood counties. our mental health outpatient services are offered at many levels of care depending on a…

Health
10
Meridian Healthcare

Elimination of drug addiction and abuse.

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11
Circle Health Services

Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.

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12
Springvale Health Centers Inc

Provide high quality integrated healthcare services to consumers and agencies primarily in tuscarawas and carroll counties.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone; the most unlike its peers is Davids Challenge Incorporated Yound Achievers Program. 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

57 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. 57 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
42/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STELLA MARIS INC: $275,000 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INCCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $140,000 · HealthCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTERMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $115,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COAL…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INCPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $110,000 · HealthPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $99,895 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INCNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $95,000 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELANDCOMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $80,000 · HealthMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC: $75,000 · HealthLIFEACT: $72,500 · HealthBeech Brook: $67,000 · HealthOhioGuidestone: $65,000 · HealthRECOVERY RESOURCES: $64,390 · Health+8 more: $182,500 · Health+8 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY: $200,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $97,500 · OtherACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDRENALCOHOL DRUG ADDITIONMENTAL HLTH SVC: $86,460 · OtherALCOHOL DRUG ADDITIONMENTAL HLTH SVCWOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER: $67,500 · OtherANNAPOLIS COALITION: $53,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATIONLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $85,000 · OtherLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUN…+36 more: $873,605 · Other+36 moreNear Westside MultiService Corp: $130,000 · Human ServicesNear Westside…The Centers for Families and Children: $95,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers f…ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $95,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT CH…JOSEPHS HOME: $46,300 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS HOMECORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE O…MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesMENTAL HEALTH…UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $47,000 · Human Services+3 moreLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $163,000 · ReligionCleveland Christian Home Inc: $157,500 · ReligionBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $20,000 · ReligionTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $125,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE OF HEALING: $74,424 · Community ImprovementJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $125,000 · Crime & LegalIDEASTREAM: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVIDS CHALLENGE INCORPORATED YOUND ACHIEVERS PROGRAM: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$1,556,285Other$1,563,065Human Services$535,800Religion$340,500Community Improvement$199,424Crime & Legal$125,000Youth Development$115,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $275,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $163,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Christian Home Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $140,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $130,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $125,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $115,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $99,895 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $97,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $95,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $85,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVILLAGE OF HEALING: $74,424 over 2y, 51% of budgetLIFEACT: $72,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER: $67,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBeech Brook: $67,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCES: $64,390 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $46,300 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHRIVE FOR CHANGE: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFAR WEST CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSIGNATURE HEALTH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNaaleh Cleveland Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $26,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $16,000 over 1y, 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 STELLA MARIS INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Cleveland Christian Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds The Centers for Families and Children ↗
  • Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF HEALING ↗
  • Who funds LIFEACT ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Beech Brook ↗
  • Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds FAR WEST CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The George Gund Found…Mt Sinai Health Care …Higley Fund of the Cl…Community West Founda…The Char and Chuck Fo…United Way of Greater…The Abington Foundati…Jewish Federation of …E S Prentiss Foundati…Ridgecliff FoundationThree Arches Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH74.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Abington Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · E S Prentiss Foundation-Ir · Ridgecliff Foundation · Three Arches Foundation

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 Woodruff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodruff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 2ND Act Org Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Woodruff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Woodruff Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 83 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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