Woodlawn Foundation
San Mateo, CA · EIN 94-0661414. Reported 148 grants totalling $8,066,500 to 54 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 Woodlawn Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for public & societal benefit (NTEE W12).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $40,000. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $175,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curiodyssey | San Mateo, CA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bread Project | Berkeley, CA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ageup Inc | Redwood City, CA | $295,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wildcare | San Rafael, CA | $295,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mbolden Change | Palo Alto, CA | $285,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Okizu Foundation | Novato, CA | $285,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | Berkeley, CA | $260,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vallejo Senior Citizens Council | Vallejo, CA | $260,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jobtrain Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| World Learning Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center | San Francisco, CA | $240,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Hearing Research Inc | Redwood City, CA | $230,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Holy Family Day Homes of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $230,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $220,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Daly City Youth Health Center | Daly City, CA | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lifemoves | Santa Clara, CA | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| On Lok Day Services | San Francisco, CA | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mission Graduates | San Francisco, CA | $210,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Ssf Project Read | South San Francisco, CA | $200,500 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Canine Companions for Independence | Santa Rosa, CA | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Together Peninsula | Redwood City, CA | $185,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | San Francisco, CA | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rising Sun Center for Opportunity | Oakland, CA | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Music Center | San Francisco, CA | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sonrisas Dental Health Inc | San Mateo, CA | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation a Charitable Corporation | Fresno, CA | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | San Francisco, CA | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Peninsula Volunteers Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Richmond District Neighborhood Center Inc | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CASA of San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dyf | Concord, CA | $140,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy | Woodside, CA | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | Tampa, FL | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Marsh a Breeding Ground for New Performance | San Francisco, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pacifica School Volunteers | Pacifica, CA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula | Menlo Park, CA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mission High Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Health Connected | E Palo Alto, CA | $71,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Mateo-Foster City Community Education Foundation | Foster City, CA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Samaritan House | San Mateo, CA | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bay Area Community Resources | El Cerrito, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pediatric Dental Initiative of the North Coast | Windsor, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California Scottish Rite Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| County of San Mateo Jobs for Youth | Belmont, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Make It Home | San Rafael, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club | San Mateo, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Daly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative | Daly City, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dress for Success San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| NAMI San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation | San Mateo, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Anthony Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Hospice & Home Care Inc | San Mateo, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Close Up Foundation | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
43 of 54 (80%) 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.
- Bread Project
FOOD PREP & TRAINING PROG. - World Learning Inc
THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING: BAY AREA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS FROM JEFFERSON UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOLS. - Job Train Inc
CAREER TRAINING AND PLACEMENT SERVICES, GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT - Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County
LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM - Wildcare
TERWILLIGER NATURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND WILDLIFE SERVICES - Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
SUPPORTING ACADEMIC RECOVERY AND THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUTH IN SAN FRANCISCO
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 54 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 | 44 | $2,105,000 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 37 | $1,560,000 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 41 | $3,056,000 | $70,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,345,500 | $37,500 |
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
95% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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 $40,000 -- 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 California.
- 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 Woodlawn 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 28 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: 205 De Anza Boulevard 190, San Mateo, CA, 94402.
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