New York · Nonprofit
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,483,814 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($23,200,000). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 181
- Grants received
- $80M
- Net assets
- $73M
What Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc does
Mission
Find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help our impacted veterans, service members, their families, and their caregivers thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Impact grant making: the foundation works closely with grantees and partners to ensure impact, build awareness of trends within the veteran space, and provide opportunities for collaboration with other organizations that work in the veteran and military community. The foundation invests in programs that address the interconnected challenges facing veterans, service members, and military families including mental health and wellbeing, legal assistance, employment, housing stability, and food security. The foundation recognizes that these challenges are rarely isolated: housing instability affects employment readiness, and food insecurity compounds mental health struggles. Through rigorous grant making, the foundation funds evidence-informed solutions that treat these needs holistically rather than in isolation.in 2025, the foundation awarded $15.5 million in grants and assistance, bringing its cumulative grant making to more than $87 million since its founding in 2006.
$18,234,248 spentof which $15,510,876 as grants73% of program spendingThe foundation maintains an active national partner network designed to increase the collaborative capacity of local communities serving veterans, service members, and military families. Through its got your 6 network more than 400 partner organizations operating in all 50 states the foundation builds a coordinated ecosystem that moves resources, knowledge, and relationships to where they are needed most. Partners receive capacity-building support, access to peer networks, and opportunities for cross-sector collaboration that amplify individual program impact. Through special events, the foundation raises awareness about the issues veterans, families, and caregivers face, to honor their service and raise funds to support them. These events are central to the foundation's strategy of bridging the military-civilian divide and building a broader culture of sustained support for those who served.in 2025, the got your 6 network collectively reached approximately 2.3 million americans. In addition, the foundation awarded $1.9 million in collaborative funding bringing its cumulative collaborative funding to more than $9.7 million since 2006.
$6,855,860 spentof which $1,977,588 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,090,108.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $47M to $72M (+53%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
101% of BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Suni Harford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $13M.
36 of 181 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 181 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 28% · 2019 42% · 2020 55% · 2021 32% · 2022 75% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
34% of BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC?
- BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,483,814 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($23,200,000). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 181 organizations giving $80,483,814 in grants to BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC?
- CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 181 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing