The Woods Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 13-3314966. Reported 153 grants totalling $1,584,723 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. 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. The Woods 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $212,823. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Timothy's School | Stevenson, MA | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $212,823 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resources Legacy Fund | Sacramento, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Champions Club | Missoula, MT | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stanford Live | Stanford, CA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hospice of Wood River Valley | Ketchum, ID | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Stanford Hoover House | Stanford, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Woods Hole, MA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Community Library | Kilmarnock, VA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Santa Cruz Waldorf School | Santa Cruz, CA | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | Palo Alto, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Stanford Woods Institute | Stanford, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sun Valley Writer's Conference | Santa Monica, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clubhouse International | New York, NY | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Precourt Foundation | Edwards, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Partners in Health Network Inc | Charleston, WV | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Precourt Director's Discretionary Fund | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc | Sun Valley, ID | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wood River Land Trust | Hailey, ID | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Berkshire School | Sheffield, MA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bonefish and Tarpon Trust | Miami, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stluke Medical Center Wood River Ltd | Boise, ID | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Woods Institute | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sun Valley Music Festival | Ketchum, ID | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vaclav Havel Library Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Camphill Village USA | Copake, NY | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sun Kelly Music Festival | Ketchum, ID | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Griot Arts Inc | Clarksdale, MS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Stage Theatre Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Luke Medical Center Wood River Ltd | Boise, ID | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Blaine County Recreation District | Hailey, ID | $4,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wood River Community YMCA | Ketchum, ID | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sun Valley Center for the Arts | Ketchum, ID | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Vista Life Innovations | Madison, CT | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Advocates for Domestic Violence | Albany, NY | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Flourish Foundation | Ketchum, ID | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Marion Institute (taktse) | Marion, MA | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| California Association of Food Banks | Oakland, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Higher Ground | Ketchum, ID | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Conservation Fund | Arlington, VA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Trust for Public Land | San Francisco, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Hunger Coalition Inc | Boone, NC | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| James B Lee JR Scholarship Fund in Honor of Joseph a Mcbride | Southampton, NY | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Crisis Hot Line Inc | Bellevue, ID | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chuck Gates Memorial | Sun Valley, ID | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Friends of Galena Public Library Inc | Galena, IL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Harlem Academy | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nature Coast Bridge Club | Spring Hill, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sun Valley Museum of Art | Sun Valley, ID | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transportation Alternatives | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Inc | Ketchum, ID | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Inc | Washington, DC | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Taktse Institute | Gangton, Sikkim | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Valley Club Scholarship Fund | Palm Desert, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
42 of 59 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 73%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 82 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 45 | $405,400 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 40 | $333,700 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $449,723 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $395,900 | $5,000 |
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
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 31% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 $5,000. 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 California.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Woods Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1271 Avenue of the Americas 42 Fl, New York, NY, 10020. 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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