· Public charity
Woodson Center
To empower community-based leaders to promote solutions that reduce crime and violence, restore families, revitalize underserved communities and assist in the creation of economic enterprise.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $2,395,046 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,717,377 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $322,331 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL | $1,786,122 |
| G E MINISTRIES INC | $150,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED MEN | $75,000 |
| VICTORY OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| HOPE FOR PRISONERS | $25,000 |
| PROJECT RECLAIM OF MINDEN INC | $25,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $25,000 |
| CAN I LIVE INC | $20,000 |
| INTERESTED CITIZENS FOR VOTER REGISTRATION | $16,500 |
| CHRISTIAN FAMILIES AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE | $15,000 |
| X CARES INC | $15,000 |
| THE CITY OF HOPE OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| URBAN NATION INC | $15,000 |
| BEYOND THE WALLS | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $354k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PWPiney Woods School4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +22%
- MCMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.5M · revenue +51%
- AOAlliance of Concerned Men5× · 2020–2024 · $558k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- URUPPER ROOM KCone grant, 2017 · $290k · revenue -22%
- CCCAPE CHARLES ROSENWALD SCHOOL RESTORATION INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +41%
- EMEMMANUEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Youth
Our mission at Do Right Christian Church is to transform lives and communities
Youth male leadership
Youth Resiliency Program is a 6-8 week bootcamp that teaches soft skills for successful living. It utilitzes a curriculum that guides youth away from negative behavior patterns and towards positivity.
Mentoring troubled youths
T.H.U.G.G.I.N. For Christ is dedicated to dismantling the dysfunctional family-to-prison pipeline by empowering young adults affected by addiction, homelessness, and poverty. Through holistic support programs including mentorship,…
Empowering young men to lead with purpose
Outreach ministries is a residential program focused on the restoration of men in crisis, offering a christian faith-based solution to freedom from addiction while addressing needs like homelessness, joblessness, and hopelessness. through…
We promote healing and growth of oneself and within our communities.We walk with our members all the way home.
Mentoring young men
Our mission to is to assist the youth in underserved communities with the issues of financial literacy, stop the violence efforts, and education. We provide parenting coaching sessions to parents to assist with reintroducing children back…
Faith Hope and Love Christian Ministries exist to glorify God by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, nurturing spiritual growth, strengthening families, and serving our community with faith, hope, and love.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Service Alliance and the most unlike its peers is I Am Cultured Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 9 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance of Concerned Men ↗
- Who funds G E MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds CAPE CHARLES ROSENWALD SCHOOL RESTORATION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Douglass Leadership Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions ↗
- Who funds HE BROUGHT US OUT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Can I Live Inc ↗
- Who funds Project Reclaim of Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVING OTHERS ON PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds I AM CULTURED INC ↗
- Who funds Project EDEN ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CITY OF HOPE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN BLUE COATS ↗
- Who funds X CARES ↗
- Who funds THE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KLEO Community Family Life Center ↗
- Who funds THE BE THE PEOPLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MIRROE MI INC ↗
- Who funds FEET ON THE STREET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Woodson Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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