Maryland · Nonprofit
OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION
OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($210,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $581k
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Our Lady of the Woods Corporation does
Mission
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The woods academy serves a student population of approximately 300 students, although actual enrollment fluctuates from year to year, and a community of approximately 200 families. Our youngest students (ages 3 to kindergarten) start with a montessori program and continue onto a more traditional classroom for grades 1 through 8. The montessori approach to early education lays the foundation for our lower and middle school academic programs which develop intellectual discipline and a life-long love of learning. Highlights of the woods academy include: inclusive, catholic school welcoming students from all backgrounds and religions with 60% catholic, 40% non-catholic; diverse community with approximately 40% of students identifying as a student of color (the average for schools within the association of independent schools of greater washington is 34.5%); small class size by design with an average class size of 12-15 and a 7:1 student-to-teacher ratio; 50% of graduates have attended the woods since montessori preschool; 100% top choice high school placement for our grade 8 students; two-thirds of woods graduates take multiple honors and/or ap courses throughout high school; and the…
$6,381,210 spentof which $223,158 as grants$8,629,056 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,381,210.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $19M (+55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Donna Byrne
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $203k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
93% of OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $541k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION: 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 OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION?
- OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($210,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $581,352 in grants to OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $210,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing