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Woodson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Woodson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$121kEducation$114kHuman Services$42kArts & Culture$36kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$9kYouth Development$7kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$62,276
WEYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES$4,000
THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION$2,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC$2,000
CHILDREN'S WELFARE LEAGUE$2,000
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC$1,250
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART$1,250
SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL$1,000
THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY INC$1,000
ECOFORESTERS$1,000
THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION$1,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN$1,000
RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC$1,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$500
CHATHAM HALL$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHFIELD MT HERMON - RICHARD ODMAN ENDOWED FUND: $62k → 14%CLASSICAL AMERICAN HOMES PRESERVATION TRUST: $1k → 17%CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 8%TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY: $9k → 11%SOUND RIVERS: $6k → 14%THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%WATERKEEPERS CAROLINA: $4k → 18%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $4k → 20%CONSERVATION LEGACY: $55k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $4k → 11%CHATHAM HALL: $10k → 14%NORTHFIELD MT HERMON - RICHARD ODMAN ENDOWED FUND: $19k → 14%CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 8%TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY: $7k → 11%CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF KOREA: $3k → 12%THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $2k → 20%CONSERVATION LEGACY: $10k → 12%CHATHAM HALL: $5k → 14%NORTHFIELD MT HERMON - RICHARD ODMAN ENDOWED FUND: $14k → 14%THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $6k → 14%RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $4k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $2k → 12%THE WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $5k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $2k → 12%THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $5k → 14%RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $2k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $2k → 12%THE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMAN SCHOOL: $3k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $2k → 12%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $3k → 14%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $3k → 14%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $2k → 12%ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $10k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $2k → 12%ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $3k → 14%SPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND inc: $10k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 8%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

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CO
KY
VA
NC
SC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$390k · 31 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

$390k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+33%

Still filing today

77%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • CONSERVATION LEGACY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $65k · revenue +55%
  • NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +69%
  • AF
    ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • SE
    SPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • SOUND RIVERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +3%
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
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
2
Catawba Lands Conservancy

As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…

Environment
3
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
4
Sandhills Area Land Trust Inc

To protect land and water, natural open spaces and farmland in the sandhills region of north carolina

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5
Nc State Natural Resources Foundation Inc

To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…

Education
6
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
7
North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.

Animals
8
Conestee Foundation Inc

Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.

Environment
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
11
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
12
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 49 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
35/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $95,376 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMEN FOR WOMEN: $13,000 · OtherWOMEN FOR WOMENWEYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $12,500 · OtherWEYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIESRALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · OtherRALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INCTHE ROARING GAP FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherTHE ROARING GAP FOUNDATIONSPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Other+18 more: $33,900 · Other+18 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton …NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $24,500 · EducationNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SC…ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA…CHATHAM HALL: $16,500 · EducationCHATHAM HALLSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOLWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $6,000 · EducationTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY+2 more: $3,000 · EducationCONSERVATION LEGACY: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION LEG…+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LA…CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $11,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATIO…SOUND RIVERS INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSOUND RIVER…Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $5,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Ap…SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN HI…EcoForesters: $4,000 · EnvironmentEcoForester…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S WELL-BEING LEAGUE F/K/A CHILDREN'S WELFARE LEAGUE: $15,500 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,100 · PhilanthropyThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $4,000 · PhilanthropyLUKE GARRISON FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$196,276Education$106,500Youth Development$65,500Environment$47,000Human Services$15,500Arts & Culture$13,000Philanthropy$8,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM HALL: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S WELL-BEING LEAGUE F/K/A CHILDREN'S WELFARE LEAGUE: $15,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN: $13,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $6,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF KOREA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEcoForesters: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIEND TO FRIEND: $3,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEyes Ears Nose and Paws Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUSHJA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE GARRISON FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDays For Girls International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Barnabas Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…North Carolina Commun…Foundation for the Ca…Bell Koonce Burnette …William C Ethridge Fo…Ella Ann L and Frank …Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Cannon Foundation…The Community Foundat…Bell Cook Family Foun…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Bell Cook Family 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 Woodson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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