· Private foundation
Woodward Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of WOODWARD GOVERNOR CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $227k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $995k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
Anchored by a single position — about 94% of reported assets are held in Woodward Inc Com C.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Airlink Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Fort Collins Police Services | $450,000 |
| Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives | $250,000 |
| Realities for Children Charities | $250,000 |
| Respite Care Inc | $250,000 |
| Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | $150,000 |
| United Way of River Rock Valley | $150,000 |
| Rock Valley College Foundation | $129,500 |
| Transform Rockford | $115,000 |
| Colorado Succeeds | $100,000 |
| UC Health Northern Colorado Foundation | $100,000 |
| YWCA - Rockford | $100,000 |
| Colorado Chamber Foundation | $50,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity (Fort Collins) | $50,000 |
| Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce | $50,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
148 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 26 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY2× · 2021–2022 · $469k · revenue +13%
- RAROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU3× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +100%
- RCRESPITE CARE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $262k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PEACE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -53% · 56% of their budget
- CCCOMPASS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $175k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $153k · revenue +94%
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.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Provide services in response to individual need
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Little fork family advocacy center brings trauma-informed care closer to home for families in rural southwest ohio. through trusted partnerships and compassionate services, we support children and families impacted by abuse and trauma -…
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Transform Rockford. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
165 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. 165 of the 240 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 TRANSFORM ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIRLINK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA STRATEGIC INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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 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
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 Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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