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Woods Family 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0172% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$23kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$19kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$18kRecreation & Sports$14kReligion$13kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNANDALE VILLAGE$7,500
ATLANTA MISSION$6,000
ATLANTA FOOD BANK$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CORNERS OUTREACH$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,800
Individual grant recipient$3,000
NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS$3,000
TOMMY NOBIS CENTER$3,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NE GA$3,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$3,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$2,000
OPEN HAND$2,000
DR WITHOUT BORDERS USA$2,000
JACK AND JILL LATE STATE CANCER$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ATLANTA MISSION: $6k → 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $3k → 9%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $3k → 9%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $3k → 9%HI HOPE SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 9%HI HOPE SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 9%LIFT UP ATLANTA: $2k → 9%HI HOPE SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 9%HI HOPE SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 9%LIFT UP ATLANTA: $1k → 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 9%PROMISE 686: $1k → 9%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 19 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
20

Total granted

$141k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+105%

Still filing today

32%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HC
    HAITI COMPANIONS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +30%
  • HS
    HI-HOPE SERVICE CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +9%
  • NA
    NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • N
    NCM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc

To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.

Human Services
2
CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services
3
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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4
Atlfamilymeal Inc

Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.

Food & Nutrition
5
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
6
Intown Collaborative Ministries Inc

The mission of Intown Cares is to prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta. We envision a thriving community equipped to provide prompt and effective support for those experiencing homelessness and hunger. Our work is…

Human Services
7
Covenant Care Services Inc

Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…

Human Services
8
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
9
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

—
10
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
11
Macon Volunteer Clinic Inc

Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.

Health
12
Hope Haven of Dekalb County Inc

To provide shelter, food, and supportive services to homeless individuals and families of DeKalb County, and to advocate for the rights of homeless individuals and families.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Corners Outreach Llc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANNANDALE VILLAGE: $17,000 · OtherANNANDALE VILLAGEATLANTA FOOD BANK: $13,500 · OtherATLANTA FOOD BANKSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $13,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSCHRIST CHURCH: $12,875 · OtherCHRIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $9,670 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUMANE SOCIETY OF NE GA: $7,000 · OtherWINE TO WATER: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+28 more: $38,000 · Other+28 moreATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISS…HI-HOPE SERVICE CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHI-HOPE SERVICE CE…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PATHW…Lift Up Atlanta Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesLift Up Atlanta In…MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesHAITI COMPANIONS INC: $12,000 · InternationalCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $3,000 · HealthOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$140,245Human Services$31,000International$12,000Youth Development$4,000Health$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetHAITI COMPANIONS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHI-HOPE SERVICE CENTER INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLift Up Atlanta Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPromise686 Inc: $1,000 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 HAITI COMPANIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HI-HOPE SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERS OUTREACH LLC ↗
  • Who funds TOMMY NOBIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Lift Up Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Promise686 Inc ↗

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Woods Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woods Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Woods Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Woods Family 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 49 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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