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Woodside 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$43kHuman Services$35kEducation$22kInternational$22kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$15kEnvironment$12kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Freeport Community Services$2,500
Good Shepherd Food Bank$2,500
Portland Community Squash$2,500
Travis Mills Foundation$2,500
Maine Right to Life Committee Educational Fund$2,250
Cradles to Crayons Inc$2,250
The Center for Grieving Children$2,000
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc$2,000
Freeport Conservation Trust$1,500
Best Buddies International Inc$1,000
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland$1,000
WinterKids Education Foundation$1,000
Waldo Community Action Partners$1,000
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute$1,000
People of Peru Project$1,000
02The need
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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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $2k → 8%Hippocrates Health Institute: $3k → 11%Max McCormick Memorial Foundation: $500 → 8%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $1k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $500 → 7%Freeport Community Services: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $1k → 13%Hospice of Southern Maine: $1k → 7%Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $500 → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $400 → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $400 → 13%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $1k → 7%Maine Needs: $1k → 7%Maine Needs: $500 → 7%Waldo Community Action Partners: $200 → 13%Waldo Community Action Partners: $100 → 13%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

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 47 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
23

Total granted

$176k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+1%

Still filing today

85%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • PC
    Portland Community Squash
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +74%
  • TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +128%
  • SS
    STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SS
    SEE SCIENCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +75%
  • WA
    WATERFALL ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -31%
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
Maine Rivers

Maine Rivers is a statewide advocacy organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the ecological health of Maine's river systems. We support and direct efforts to conserve and improve the health of Maine's rivers and…

Environment
2
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
3
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
4
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
5
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
6
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
7
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
8
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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11
30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment
12
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is Italian Greyhound Rescue Foundation Inc. 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

68 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. 68 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
41/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC: $10,112 · OtherSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INCWaterfall Arts: $6,500 · OtherWaterfall ArtsFreeport Conservation Trust: $3,750 · OtherVolunteers of America Inc: $3,600 · OtherSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherSEE SCIENCE CENTER INCWATERFALL ARTS: $3,500 · OtherANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $3,050 · OtherMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,900 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $5,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECTTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $5,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN+37 more: $38,170 · Other+37 morePortland Community Squash: $24,100 · Recreation & SportsPortland Commun…STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSTEAMBOAT HEALT…+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc: $10,033 · EducationThe Washingto…Cornerspring Montessori School: $6,000 · EducationCornerspring …ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationST PAUL'S SCH…PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $2,600 · EducationPROPRIETORS O…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $1,250 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · EducationFriends of RSU5 co Mark Klein: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $600 · EducationTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MIL…UBR: $2,500 · Public BenefitUBRWreaths Across America: $2,005 · Public BenefitWreaths Ac…FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,500 · Human ServicesFREEPORT …HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $3,125 · Human ServicesHIPPOCRAT…WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $2,600 · Human ServicesWALDO COM…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,250 · Human ServicesCRADLES T…Maine Needs Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesMaine Nee…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Maine: $1,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Southern Maine: $1,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE OF PERU PROJECT: $14,000 · InternationalPEOPLE OF…Best Buddies International Inc: $2,000 · InternationalBest Budd…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $1,500 · InternationalUNRWA USA…International Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalInternati…MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $4,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland Trust: $3,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$87,582Recreation & Sports$30,100Education$25,983Public Benefit$19,505Human Services$18,975International$18,500Food & Nutrition$14,750

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 budgetPortland Community Squash: $24,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE OF PERU PROJECT: $14,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC: $10,112 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc: $10,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornerspring Montessori School: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFreeport Conservation Trust: $3,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFALL ARTS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $3,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $3,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUBR: $2,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSmall Woodland Owners Association of Maine: $2,395 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCTIONAL FUND: $2,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $2,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOOSEHEAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,525 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION: $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE-WABANAKI REACH: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Healers International Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of RSU5 co Mark Klein: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetITALIAN GREYHOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Fisher Charitable Fou…Onion FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Sam L Cohen FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Simmons Foundation - …Saco & Biddeford Savi…Vincent B and Barbara…Maine Health Access F…Lennox Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME58.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Lennox 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 Woodside Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodside Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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.

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 80 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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