Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation
Louisville, KY · EIN 61-1104319. Reported 52 grants totalling $2,600,000 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $12,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $667,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Attached | Louisville, KY | $1,913,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement HOUSE3 | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gilda's Club | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Home of the Ionnocents | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln Heritage Council BSA | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Merideth -Dunn School | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Life Directions Ministries | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Visually Impaired Preschool Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yew Dell Botanical Gardens | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA Camp Piomingo | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA Safe Place Services | Louisvlle, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bellarmine University | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caroles Kitchen | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Education Fdn | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Sistrers of the Poor | Lousville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paws With a Purpose | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cure Cf Inc | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Book Spot Bus Inc | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Queen's Daughters | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wings of Refuge | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers & Sisters | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA of the River Region | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA Shelby County | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cedar Lake Foundation | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisville Leopard Percusionist | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nativity Academy at Sint Boniface | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Hope Ministries | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St James Catholic Schools | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John Center | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stormhaven Youth Ranch | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wag S Pet Therapy of Ky | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Workwell Industries | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Archdiocese of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Awake Ministries | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs Kentuckiana | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carriage House Educational | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hildegard House | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| House of Ruth | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kids on the Block | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kiwanis Club | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opertion Warm | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upside Therapeutic Riding Inc | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Radio Eye | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
1 of 50 (2%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $640,000 | $640,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $606,000 | $606,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | $667,000 | $667,000 |
| 2024 | 49 | $687,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kentucky.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 231 S Fifth St 2ND Floor, Louisville, KY, 40202. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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