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Woods Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
40
Grants FY2023
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of Woods Charitable Fund Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,107,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,322,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $215,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $588k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $512k
$20,000
Median grant
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank of Lincoln, Inc.$150,000
Legal Aid of Nebraska$110,000
Lincoln Literacy Council (aka LLC)$75,000
Lincoln Littles (Fiscal Sponsor Lincoln Community Foundation, Inc.)$61,500
El Centro de Las Americas$60,000
Asian Community and Cultural Center$55,000
Center for Legal Immigration Assistance (aka CLIA)$40,000
City of Lincoln-Lincoln Police Department$35,000
HopeSpoke$30,000
HUB Central Access Point for Young Adults$30,000
St. Monica's Home (aka St. Monica's)$30,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lincoln (Staff support for community-based mentoring)$30,000
Indian Center, Inc.$25,000
Mourning Hope (aka Mourning Hope Grief Center)$25,000
Lincoln YWCA (aka YWCA Lincoln)$25,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
27

Total granted

$1.2M
$876k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • FV
    Family Violence Council
    2× · 2022–2023 · $315k
  • LA
    Legal Aid of Nebraska
    2× · 2022–2023 · $240k
  • FB
    Food Bank of Lincoln, Inc.
    2× · 2022–2023 · $163k

Funded once

  • CN
    Civic Nebraska (Collective Impact Lincoln)
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • LL
    Lincoln Literacy Council (aka LLC) (Breakthrough 3.0 Bridgeway to A Better Life)
    one grant, 2022 · $135k
  • FS
    Fresh Start, Inc.
    one grant, 2022 · $45k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2023.

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 20222023, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 63 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Family Violence Council — $315,000 · OtherFamily Violence CouncilCivic Nebraska (Collective Impact Lincoln) — $300,000 · OtherCivic Nebraska (Collective Impact Lincoln)Legal Aid of Nebraska — $240,000 · OtherLegal Aid of NebraskaFood Bank of Lincoln, Inc. — $162,500 · OtherFood Bank of Lincoln, Inc.Lincoln Literacy Council (aka LLC) (Breakthrough 3.0 Bridgeway to A Better Life) — $135,000 · OtherCenter for Legal Immigration Assistance (aka CLIA) — $120,000 · Other+57 more — $1,350,100 · Other+57 more
Other$2,622,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget
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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Woods Charitable Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Woods Charitable Fund Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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