Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation
Louisville, KY · EIN 31-0914024. Reported 83 grants totalling $767,380 to 69 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. 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. Wood & Marie Hannah 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 $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Mcdonald House | Louisville, KY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Printing House for the Blind | Louisville, KY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kentucky Wesleyan College | Owensboro, KY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph Children's Home | Louisville, KY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House | Louisville, KY | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Humanities Council | Lexington, KY | $20,060 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blackacre | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Haven | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Passionist Earth & Spirit Center | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Kentuckiana | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Community Clinic Inc | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love City | Louisville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Kentucky | Frankfort, KY | $14,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Presentation Academy | Louisville, KY | $13,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentucky | Louisville, KY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St John Center | Louisville, KY | $12,130 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Talbot House | Louisville, KY | $11,220 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alice Lloyd College | Pippa Passes, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baptist Health Foundation | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cedar Lake Foundation | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Down Syndrome of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family & Children's Place | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hosparus | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior Achievement | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Library Foundation | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Light House Academy | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mattingly Center Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood House | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Olmsted Parks | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Supplies Over Seas | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Pikeville | Pikevilleky, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| YMCA of Greater Louisville | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Home of the Innocents | Louisville, KY | $9,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA Inc | Louisville, KY | $9,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse Academy | Louisville, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Actors Theater of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Cave Conservation Association | Horse Cave, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Educational Justice | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Exodus Family Ministries | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feat of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends School Inc | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green Hill Therapy | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates - Bloom Kentucky | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisville Ballet | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Louisville Youth Philanthropy Council | Prospect, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Project Camp Inc (center for Courageous Kids) | Scottsville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Refuge for Women | Lexington, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reviving Urban Neighborhoods Inc | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sos Health and Hope | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uniting Partners for Women and Children | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Authors Greenhouse | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Visually Impaired Preschool Services | Louisville, KY | $4,730 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Academy for Individual Excellence | Louisville, KY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kentucky Harvest | Louisville, KY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pillar | Crestwood, KY | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Open Arms | Louisville, KY | $3,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Lung Association | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Barren Heights | Jeffersontown, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Filson Historical Society | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Legal Aid Society Inc | Covington, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lighthouse Promise Inc | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St George Scholar Institute | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stageone Family Theater | Louisville, KY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hermitage Farm Charities Inc | Goshen, KY | $1,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Radio Eye | Lexington, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
12 of 69 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 15%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- American Printing House for the Blind
TACTICLE TOWN INSTALLATION IN THE DOT EXPERIENCE LOBBY - Kentucky Wesleyan College
FUND THE NEIL B JESSE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND - Ronald Mcdonald House
PERMANENT GUESTROOM SPONSOR - St Joseph Children's Home
SPONSORSHIP OF ONE OF THE ROOMS ON CAMPUS - Passionist Earth & Spirit Center
TO CONSTRUCT A KEYSTONE FEATURE OF THE SPIRIT SCAPE - Blackacre
SUSAN SCHNIK NATURE ED CENTER UPDATES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 30 | $244,770 | $5,565 |
| 2022 | 29 | $263,990 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $258,620 | $6,000 |
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 $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 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 Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 32890, Louisville, KY, 40232. 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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