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Woodward Foundation Inc

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$80kEducation$43kHuman Services$27kPublic Benefit$27kYouth Development$23kArts & Culture$18kRecreation & Sports$15kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$522k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Judicial Watch$4,000
Independent Medical Alliance$4,000
Hillsdale College$4,000
Children's Health Defense$3,000
The Heritage Foundation$3,000
Regent University Regent University Advancement ADM 128$2,500
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls$2,500
The Leadership Institute$2,500
Network of Enlightened Wome$2,250
The Virginia Home$2,000
Virginia Special Olympics$1,000
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $3k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $3k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $3k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $3k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $3k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $2k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $2k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $2k → 9%Virginia Home for Boys and Girls: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$217k · 20 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$217k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+87%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TV
    The Virginia Home
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +142%
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +21%
  • LI
    LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VALENTINE MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +176%
  • BS
    Beth Sholom Senior Living
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • BM
    BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +87%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
3
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

Health
4
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
7
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

9
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
10
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
11
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
12
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr15%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr15%51%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,446

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Virginia Special Olympics — $15,000 · OtherVirginia Special OlympicsREGENT UNIVERSITY — $13,000 · OtherREGENT UNIVERSITYFLCCC Alliance Inc — $11,500 · OtherFLCCC Alliance IncBoy's and Girl's Club of Metro Richmond Va Inc — $11,000 · OtherBoy's and Girl's Club of Metro Richmond V…VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $9,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSThe Community Idea Stations — $8,000 · OtherThe Community Idea StationsFeed More Meals on Wheels Program Richmond — $6,500 · OtherFeed More Meals on Wheels Program Richmon…MAYMONT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherMAYMONT FOUNDATION+9 more — $12,500 · Other+9 moreThe Virginia Home — $26,000 · HealthThe Virginia HomeLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER — $17,100 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWO…INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE — $8,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALL…+2 more — $2,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $15,500 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S H…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE B…LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTER…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $11,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $9,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WAT…Leadership Institute — $6,500 · Public BenefitLeadership I…VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $21,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA …HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $17,500 · EducationHILLSDALE…NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC — $3,250 · EducationNETWORK O…HEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $11,500 · Youth Development
Other$91,500Health$53,100Environment$27,500Public Benefit$27,000Human Services$21,000Education$20,750Youth Development$11,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Virginia Home — $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER — $17,100 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC — $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHEPHERDS CENTER OF RICHMOND — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 The Virginia Home
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
  • Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERDS CENTER OF RICHMOND
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM
  • Who funds BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION
  • Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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.

Massey Family FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Massey Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Chrisman Family Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc64% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Art League Inc8% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Foundation Corporation4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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