Woodard & Curran Foundation
Portland, ME · EIN 27-2130228. Reported 52 grants totalling $933,335 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Woodard & Curran Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a corporate foundation (NTEE T21).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Research Project Inc | Annapolis, MD | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation | Longmont, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Francis University | Loretto, PA | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ridge to Reefs Inc | Eldersburg, MD | $66,667 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Turtle Island Restoration Network | Forest Knolls, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Change Is Simple Incorporated | Beverly, MA | $53,334 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| To Nizhoni Ani | Kykotsmovi, AZ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Casco Bay | Portland, ME | $33,334 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Open Space Institute Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Maine Lakes Society | Yarmouth, ME | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| X-Cel Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Forests | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Rivers Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Attleboro Land Trust Inc | Attleboro, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | Smyrna, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizens Association of Liberty L Akes Inc | Liberty, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clean Ocean Access | Middletown, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Financing Corporation | Fort Myers, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Scarborough Marsh | Scarborough, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gallatin River Task Force | Big Sky, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Native Plant Society | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heart of Biddeford | Biddeford, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honor the Earth | Colstrip, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Loon Echo Land Trust Inc | Bridgton, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | Topsham, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maine Farmland Trust Inc | Belfast, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mill City Grows Inc | Lowell, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ocean Conservancy Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Phippsburg Land Trust | Phippsburg, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc | Rangeley, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raritan Headwaters Association | Gladstone, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine | Lewiston, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sun River Watershed | Great Falls, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sustainable Maple Shade Inc | Maple Shade, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Talent Collective Dsm | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Techbridge Girls | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tree Trust | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wolfes Neck Farm Foundation Inc | Freeport, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
8 of 41 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Ocean Research Project
To create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean. - Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation
Yellow Barn Farm Project: to create economical opportunities on a regenerative farm - Saint Francis University
CWRS's project to remediate the watershed, improve the quality of water. - Ridge to Reefs
Hawai'i Project to improve/protect water treatment systems, beaches, and ecosystems - Change Is Simple
CiS project: trailer to travel to schools and to educate children on environmental topics - Friends of Casco Bay
Funding to collect climate data for the Casco Bay by deploying three high-tech continuous monitoring stations in an estuarine, near-shore environment; to communicate to the community the changing conditions of the bay; and to engage the community in their work to advance policy and behavioral changes to address the impacts of climate change.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $210,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $300,001 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $233,334 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $190,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
19% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Woodard & Curran Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 12 Mountfort Street, Portland, ME, 04101.
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