Woods Fund of Chicago
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-3917968. Reported 430 grants totalling $17.3M to 223 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$40,000median grant
$17.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
223recipients, as named on its returns
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$57.9Massets, latest filing
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. Woods Fund of Chicago did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $40,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $250,000. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Fund | Chicago, IL | $498,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kenwood Oakland Community Organization | Chicago, IL | $380,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | $340,643 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| BYP100 Education Fund | Chicago, IL | $332,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southside Together Organizing for Power | Chicago, IL | $284,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hana Center | Chicago, IL | $271,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Chicago Community Trust | Chicago, IL | $265,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Just Chicago Collective (fs BYP100 Education Fund) | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Coalition for the Homeless | Chicago, IL | $235,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lugenia Burns Hope Center Inc | Chicago, IL | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southwest Organizing Project | Chicago, IL | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Grassroots Collaborative | Chicago, IL | $210,150 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Communities United | Chicago, IL | $205,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Latino Union Inc Aka Latino Union of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $200,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warehouse Workers for Justice | Chicago, IL | $197,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Workers Center for Racial Justice | Chicago, IL | $195,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Workers Collaborative | Chicago, IL | $190,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brighton Park Neighborhood Council | Chicago, IL | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Latino Policy Forum | Chicago, IL | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pilsen Alliance | Chicago, IL | $188,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education | Chicago, IL | $188,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arab American Action Network | Chicago, IL | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Community Bond Fund | Chicago, IL | $183,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Woodstock Institute | Chicago, IL | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blocks Together | Chicago, IL | $177,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Enlace Chicago | Chicago, IL | $171,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alianza Leadership Institute Dba Alliance of the Southeast | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic Inc | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago Community and Workers Rights | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Organizing and Family Issues | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Long Walk Home Inc | Chicago, IL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brave Space Alliance | Chicago, IL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Defense Legal Aid | Chicago, IL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health | Chicago, IL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paso-West Suburban Action Project | Melrose Park, IL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality Northside | Chicago, IL | $162,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Housing Action Illinois | Chicago, IL | $162,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Equity and Transformation | Chicago, IL | $161,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization | Chicago, IL | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asian American Institute Dba Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago | Chicago, IL | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Renewal Society | Chicago, IL | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Juvenile Justice Initiative | Evanston, IL | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Women Employed | Chicago, IL | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arise Chicago | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Movement Building Paths | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mujeres Latinas En Accion | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lawndale Christian Development | Chicago, IL | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Progress Center for Independent Living | Forest Park, IL | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Black Roots Alliance | Chicago, IL | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Healing to Action | Chicago, IL | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Faith in Place | Chicago, IL | $135,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Action Now Institute | Chicago, IL | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chicago United for Equity | Chicago, IL | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Immigrant Solidarity Dupage | Wheaton, IL | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Supportive Housing Providers Association | Springfield, IL | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Organized Communities Against Deportations | Chicago, IL | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Centro De Trabajadores Unidos United Workers' Center | Chicago, IL | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Logan Square Neighborhood Association Dba Palenque Lsna | Chicago, IL | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Open Collective Foundation Aka Paths (fiscal Sponsor the Praxis Project) | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The People's Lobby Education Institute | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Logan Square Neighborhood Association | Chicago, IL | $96,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Goodkids Madcity Englewood | Chicago, IL | $96,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chicago Freedom School | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Torture Justice Center | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership Nfp | Maywood, IL | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Organized Communities Against Deportations (fs Latino Union of Chicago) | Chicago, IL | $93,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwest Side Housing Center Dba Northwest Center | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Centro De Trabajadores Unidos | Chicago, IL | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Live Free Chicago Dba Live Free Illinois | Chicago, IL | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Bluhm Legal Clinic Children and Family | Chicago, IL | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southwiders Organized for Unity and Liberation | Chicago, IL | $80,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Prison Neighborhood Artseducation Project (fs Neiu Foundation) | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Apna Ghar Inc | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Target Area Development Corporation | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Third World Organizing | Oakland, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Forefront | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Live Free Chicago | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transformative Justice Law Project | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dissenters | Chicago, IL | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Metropolis Strategies Dba Illinois Justice Fund | Chicago, IL | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blackroots Alliance (blm Chicago 2020 Rapid Response Grant) | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lucy Parsons Labs-Current | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muslims for Just Futures | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Side Housing Center | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Public Health Institute of Metropolitan | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (trht) Chicago | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westside Rising | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Northside | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prison Neighborhood Artseducation Project | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Build Inc | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Third World Organizing | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalition to End Money Bond (fs Chicago Community Bond Fund) | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Get to Work Illinois Inc | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grassroots Alliance Police Accountability (fs Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metropolis Strategies Nfp Dba Illinois Justice Project | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northeastern Illinois University Foundation | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| People United for Racial Equity in Cannabis (fs Blackroots Alliance) | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westside Rising (fiscal Sponsor Build Chicago) | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westside Rising (fs Build Inc) | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dissenters (fs the Watershed Center) | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Not Me We (fiscal Sponsor Southside Together Organizing for Power) | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Black Abolitionist Network | Oakland, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Workers Matter | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Business and Professional People for the Public Interest | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy (fs Forefront) | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fathers Families and Healthy Communities | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Working Families (fs Children and Teachers Foundation of the Chicago | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United African Organization | Chicago, IL | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Tax and Budget Accountability | Chicago, IL | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assata's Daughters | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Assata's Daughters (fs Alliance for Global Justice Corporation) | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Jobs Council | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Jobs With Justice | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastlake Tenants Union | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodkids Madcity - Bronzeville | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jane Addams Senior Caucus-Current | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lucy Parsons Labs | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolis Strategies Dba Illinois Justice Project | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Muslims for Just Futures (fiscal Sponsor Defending Rights and Dissent Inc) | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rpcan Alliance for Community Services-Current | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Black Abolitionist Network (fs Center for Third World Organizing) | Oakland, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Final 5 Campaign (fiscal Sponsor Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (trht) Chicago (fs the Chicago Comm | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Working Family Solidarity-Current | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Believers Bailout | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing (fcyo) | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartland Alliance | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illinois Partners for Human Service | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Lawyers Guild | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Funders Groupfor Neo Philanthropy Inc | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Real Youth Initiative | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham Memorial Foundation Ltd | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Travelers Immigrants AIDS Heartland | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (fs the Chicago Community Founda | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vietnamese Association of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jane Addams Senior Caucus | Chicago, IL | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Workers Matter (fs Get to Work Inc) | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Get to Work Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grantmakers Effective Organizations | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| John Howard Association of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Michael Reese Health Trust | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Children and Family Justice Center Blu | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Racial Justice Pooled Fund (fs Crossroads) | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Asian American Policy & Research Institute | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Asian American Foundation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The People's Lobby Education | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law LLC | Chicago, IL | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arab Futures Healing and Liberation Network | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Religious Leadership | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Goodkids Mad City-Englewood (fs Southwest Organizing Project) | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Immigrant Funders Collaborative (fs Chicago Community Foundation) | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| AIDS Foundation Chicago | Chicago, IL | $18,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building Community Not Prisons | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance (fs Chicago Community Foundation) | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Justice Dba Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Media Process Educational Films | Northampton, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (fs Apna Ghar Inc) | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Illinois Department of Gender and Women's Studies | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ujimaa Medics | Chicago, IL | $10,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ampt Advancing Nonprofits | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Foundation for Women | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Journey for Justice Alliance | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Love and Protect | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marguerite Casey Foundation | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raise the Floor Alliance | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soapbox Productions and Organizing | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Final 5 Campaign | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Resurrection Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Chicago Social Sciences Division | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women of Color Leadership (fs Crossroads Fund) | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Working Family Solidarity | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth Empowerment Performance Project | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christianaire Inc | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Parole Illinois | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woods Wyatt Durham Memorial Foundation | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breakin It Down | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breakin It Down (mujeres Latinas En Accion's Conference) | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Public Media | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Impact for Equity (formerly Bpi Chicago) | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lideramos- the National Alliance of Latino Leadership | Thornton, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Telpochcalli Community Education Project | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | Chicago, IL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The #letusbreathe Collective (fiscal Sponsor Center for Third Word Organizi | Chicago, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Side YMCA | Chicago, IL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Committee for Just Peace in Israel & Palestine | Oak Park, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | Glencoe, IL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ladies of Virtue | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dion's Chicago Dream Center | Matteson, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girls Like Me Project | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kartemquin Educational Films | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mental Health Leadership Initiative | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polished Pebbles | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Cloud Indian School Inc | Pine Ridge, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breakin It Down 2021 Conference (fs Mujeres Latinas En Accion) | Chicago, IL | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| L'arche Chicago Inc | Oak Park, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| NAMI Chicago | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Night Ministry | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices of West Englewood | Chicago, IL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation Inc | Chicago, IL | $465 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lucy Parsons Lab | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beth Eden Baptist Church | Chicago, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
96 of 223 (43%) 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 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 242 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 126 | $3,765,508 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 86 | $3,632,500 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 98 | $4,331,750 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 120 | $5,573,000 | $50,000 |
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.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Woods Fund of Chicago has 2 of them, worth $222,500. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Just Chicago Collective (fs Is BYP100 Education Fund) | Chicago, IL | $187,500 |
| Mamas | Chicago, IL | $35,000 |
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Woods Fund of Chicago's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 200 West Madison Street 3RD Floor, Chicago, IL, 60606. 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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