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Woodward Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PECONIC LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FL | $10,000 |
| MAYFIELD EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| PROSPECT HOUSE INC | $8,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $7,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB | $5,000 |
| GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS STATE OF OHIO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
140 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 15 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- PLPECONIC LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +474%
- CPCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +46%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- EHEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -57%
- TBTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
- SAST ANDREWS SCHOOL OFone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Moran Trust. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
143 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 218 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Prospect House Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMAGANSETT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE MIAMI STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION 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: CMB Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · Butler Family Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Willow Hill Foundation · The Oliver Family Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation
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 Woodward Family Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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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