Virginia · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $522k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Woodward Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $24k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $23k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $25k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $25k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $28k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Virginia Home | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Home for Boys and Girls | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Legal Information Network for Cancer | $17,100 | 7 | 1% |
| Children's Health Defense | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Regent University | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Heart of Virginia Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Independent Medical Alliance | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Virginia Home | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Home for Boys and Girls | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Legal Information Network for Cancer | $17,100 | 7 | 1% |
| Children's Health Defense | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Regent University | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Heart of Virginia Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Independent Medical Alliance | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maymont Foundation | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Network of Enlightened Women Inc | $3,250 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shepherds Center of Richmond | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Valentine Museum | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Beebe Medical Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rehoboth Art League Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodward Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Woodward Foundation Inc
- How much does Woodward Foundation Inc give?
- Woodward Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $31,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Woodward Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Woodward Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Virginia Home ($26k), Virginia Home for Boys and Girls ($21k), Legal Information Network for Cancer ($17k).
- Does Woodward Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woodward Foundation Inc 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 Woodward Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Massey Family Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Chrisman Family Foundation.
- Where is Woodward Foundation Inc based?
- Woodward Foundation Inc is based in VA.
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