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Woodson 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.

$88k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Woodson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$88k50%
FY20249$51k33%
FY202312$49k33%
FY202220$67k65%
FY20217$60k43%
FY20206$48k0%
FY201916$58k69%
FY20189$32k44%
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$74kHealth$65kHuman Services$62kYouth Development$54kFood & Nutrition$36kPhilanthropy$14kEmployment$13kArts & Culture$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
WY
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
NM
TN
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wyo West Warrior Foundation$59,000514%
University of Wyoming Foundation$25,32550%
Invisible Wounds Foundation$20,00016%
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$18,00030%
Senior Citizen Council$17,50050%
Calvary Chapel of Cheyenne$15,0001n/a
National Jewish Health$12,50050%
Climb Dba Climb Wyoming$10,50030%
Women With Purpose Inc$8,0002n/a
Uplift Northwest$7,00020%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Woodson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wyo West Warrior Foundation$59,000514%
University of Wyoming Foundation$25,32550%
Invisible Wounds Foundation$20,00016%
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$18,00030%
Senior Citizen Council$17,50050%
Calvary Chapel of Cheyenne$15,0001n/a
National Jewish Health$12,50050%
Climb Dba Climb Wyoming$10,50030%
Women With Purpose Inc$8,0002n/a
Uplift Northwest$7,00020%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$5,0001n/a
The Sophia Way$5,0001n/a
Food Bank of the Rockies$5,00010%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$5,00010%
Recovery Cafe$4,50020%
Taco Johns Foundation$4,00013%
The Life of a Single Mom$3,00010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$3,00010%
Louisiana Abortion Fund$3,00010%
Orphan Foundation of America D/B/A Foster Care to Success Foundation$3,00010%
Metanoia Inc$3,0001n/a
Wyoming Tactical Rifle Champion$2,5001n/a
Resurrection Street Ministry Inc$2,5001n/a
Adaptive Performance Center$2,50011%
Hospice of the Valley$2,00010%
American Brain Tumor Association$1,0001n/a
Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum$1,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWyo West Warrior Foundation: $59,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Wyoming Foundation: $25,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInvisible Wounds Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGreater Baton Rouge Food Bank: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Citizen Council: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClimb Dba Climb Wyoming: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUplift Northwest: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRecovery Cafe: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTaco Johns Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Life of a Single Mom: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Abortion Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrphan Foundation of America D/B/A Foster Care to Success Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdaptive Performance Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Stand Together FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stand Together Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Woodson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Woodson 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.

About Woodson Family Foundation

How much does Woodson Family Foundation give?
Woodson Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $87,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Woodson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (15%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Woodson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wyo West Warrior Foundation ($59k), University of Wyoming Foundation ($25k), Invisible Wounds Foundation ($20k).
Does Woodson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Woodson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Woodson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stand Together Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Woodson Family Foundation based?
Woodson Family Foundation is based in WY.

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 56 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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