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Woodshouse 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.4MReligion$1.4MInternational$855kPhilanthropy$727kSocial Science$275kCommunity Improvement$225kEnvironment$221kHuman Services$210kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $271k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $622k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP$1,000,000
MS GIFT FUND (MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC)$300,000
NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL$162,000
RSF SOCIAL FINANCE$100,000
MILWAUKEE MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC$100,000
PERISCOPE FOUNDATION$60,000
GRADALIS$50,000
LIBRARY CIRCLE OF FRIENDS$50,000
REAL ORGANIC PROJECT INC$50,000
QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT$50,000
BRUCE MUSEUM INC$40,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$40,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$30,000
IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL$25,000
LAW PROJECT FOR PSYCHIATRIC RIGHTS$22,000
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 (FY22–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US RIGHT TO KNOW: $50k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $2k → 10%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $10k → 9%CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $50k → 9%RESTORE CHILDHOOD: $50k → 17%RESTORE CHILDHOOD: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IN
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Woodshouse Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 0%.

Woodshouse Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 20 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
57

Total granted

$3.2M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • NB
    NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $348k · revenue +41%
  • WM
    WISCONSIN MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $320k · revenue +23%
  • QI
    QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $225k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • BL
    Bound Lotus Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -53%
  • AT
    AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -6%
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
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Center for Responsible Science
Philanthropy
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
11
Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
12
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grunt Style Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 92 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)
56/58
Grantees still filing
34/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP: $1,025,000 · OtherSELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMS GIFT FUND (MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC): $300,000 · OtherMS GIFT FUND (MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST I…MILWAUKEE MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC: $200,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE MONTESSORI SOCIETY INCLIBRARY CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · Other+58 more: $1,583,973 · Other+58 moreNORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $348,000 · EducationNORTH BRANCH SCHOOLWISCONSIN MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC: $320,000 · EducationWISCONSIN MONTESSORI…Bound Lotus Foundation Inc: $200,000 · EducationBound Lotus Foundati…AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $125,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRANSPARENC…North Branch School Inc: $62,000 · EducationAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Education+9 more: $173,000 · Education+9 moreMYRIAD USA INC: $711,175 · InternationalMYRIAD USA IN…FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLIC…IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL: $47,000 · InternationalIMPACT SOCIET…+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $500,000 · Social ScienceRSF SOCIA…AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $75,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN …QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $225,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementANTHROPOSOPHIC PRESS INC DBA STEINER BOOKS: $254,350 · ReligionTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INC: $53,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESILIENCE: $40,000 · Food & NutritionORGANICEYE INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,708,973Education$1,278,000International$823,175Social Science$575,000Community Improvement$325,000Religion$254,350Food & Nutrition$203,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $711,175 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $500,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $348,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWISCONSIN MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC: $320,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetANTHROPOSOPHIC PRESS INC DBA STEINER BOOKS: $254,350 over 3y, 25% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $225,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $125,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetReal Organic Project Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetIDAHO OUTFITTERS & GUIDE ASSOC INC: $80,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNorth Branch School Inc: $62,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INC: $53,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY: $53,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUS RIGHT TO KNOW: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetIMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL: $47,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFairfield University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESILIENCE: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chorus of Westerly Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENTIFIC ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBackbone Campaign: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRescue the West Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANICEYE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCCUPY PEACE AND FREEDOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMEADOWBROOK WALDORF ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF ECOTECHNICS: $2,300 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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 Bluebell Foundati…Donors Trust IncRsf Social Finance IncBradley Impact Fund I…The Chicago Community…Forrest C & Frances H…Carroll Petrie Founda…Novo FoundationCharleigh Charitable …The Snider FoundationCharles Koch Foundati…Impactassetsinc
The Bluebell FoundationFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bluebell Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Novo Foundation · Charleigh Charitable Trust · The Snider Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Real Organic Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Woodshouse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Woodshouse 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 92 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 unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home