Illinois · Private foundation
Woods Fund of Chicago
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2024
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 85 to 124
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Woods Fund of Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 118 | $5.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $4.2M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $3.5M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 124 | $3.8M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 119 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Fund Inc | $523,700 | 5 | 3% |
| Kenwood Oakland Community Organization | $435,789 | 5 | 4% |
| BYP100 Education Fund | $357,500 | 5 | 11% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $340,643 | 4 | n/a |
| Southside Together Organizing For Power | $329,789 | 5 | 26% |
| The Hana Center | $316,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $281,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Lugenia Burns Hope Center | $280,789 | 5 | 12% |
| Southwest Organizing Project | $275,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | $270,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 107 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Woods Fund of Chicago supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 127 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · Forefront · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Conant Family Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation
How this is measured
About Woods Fund of Chicago
- How much does Woods Fund of Chicago give?
- Woods Fund of Chicago reported 120 grants totaling $5,573,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 124 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Woods Fund of Chicago fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (32%), Community Improvement (20%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are Woods Fund of Chicago's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Crossroads Fund Inc ($524k), Kenwood Oakland Community Organization ($436k), BYP100 Education Fund ($358k).
- Does Woods Fund of Chicago fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woods Fund of Chicago accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Woods Fund of Chicago?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Crossroads Fund Inc, Field Foundation of Illinois.
- Where is Woods Fund of Chicago based?
- Woods Fund of Chicago is based in IL.
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