Illinois · Private foundation
Woodward Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 98
- Grants FY2024
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Woodward Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $464k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 98 | $3.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 86 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $2.2M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $742k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 89 | $709k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 91 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 79 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transform Rockford | $1,440,000 | 8 | 100% |
| Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundation | $1,100,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Airlink Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 8% |
| United Way of Rock River Valley | $469,186 | 2 | 9% |
| Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | $400,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Respite Care Inc | $262,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Rock Valley College Foundation | $255,500 | 2 | 12% |
| Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives | $250,000 | 1 | 70% |
| Realities for Children Charities | $250,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Family Peace Center | $200,000 | 1 | 56% |
Show all 173 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Woodward Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 159 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · United Way of Larimer County · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Realities for Children Charities · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Nordson Corporation Foundation
How this is measured
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About Woodward Charitable Trust
- How much does Woodward Charitable Trust give?
- Woodward Charitable Trust reported 98 grants totaling $3,702,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Woodward Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Woodward Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Transform Rockford ($1.4M), Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundation ($1.1M), Airlink Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Woodward Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woodward Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Woodward Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, United Way of Larimer County.
- Where is Woodward Charitable Trust based?
- Woodward Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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