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Robert W Woodruff Foundation

Name: Robert W Woodruff Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

116
grants reported: $733.7M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $2.0M
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Metro Atlanta capital campaigns: Beltline, parks, trails, downtown streetscapes
Emory, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Grady facilities and campus construction
Museums and cultural institutions: Woodruff Arts, History Center, Fernbank, Civil and Human Rights
Ichauway ecological research station annual capital and operating needs
Health workforce pipelines: nurse residency, epidemiology fellowships, nursing education
Georgia civic infrastructure: local news bureaus, nonprofit capacity, economics education

Typical grant

Median grant is $2 million, with the middle half between $500,000 and $6 million. Checks above $10 million go almost entirely to named capital campaigns at anchor Atlanta institutions, often routed through the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, topping out at $90 million to Emory for the Egleston campus. Small grants of $75,000 to $500,000 go to operating and program support for statewide civic organizations and repeat almost identically year after year, and large campaign pledges are paid in installments across three or four filings.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“as part of $25 million campaign”
“2025 capital and operating needs”
“expansion of nursing education pipeline”
“Support of operations”
“in partnership with”
“enhance guests' experience”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie research to the Emory, Grady, Georgia State cluster; they fund those three together repeatedly.
Frame the ask as a named share of a stated total campaign, the way every large grant reads.
For research dollars, mirror funded models: fellowship programs, eminent scholar chairs, or a partnership institute.
Keep the work physically in Georgia; out-of-state grantees were funded only for Georgia-facing bureaus.

Worth knowing: This is a Georgia foundation, 108 of 116 grants in state and overwhelmingly metro Atlanta, and the five out-of-state checks all paid for Georgia work. A short list of institutions with Woodruff names and long histories, Emory, the Beltline, Ichauway, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Arts Center, absorbs most of the money, so giving reads as trustee-driven and relationship-based rather than responsive.

1 grant matching “eminent” · $963,000

$963,000
Georgia Research Alliance · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support for a collaborative initiative to research neurodegenerative diseases and establishment of the Calvin Smyre GRA Eminent Scholar Chair.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta5 grants · $205.0M
Emory University8 grants · $105.6M
Ichauway Incorporated6 grants · $61.5M
Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund1 grant · $35.0M
Georgia Tech Foundation2 grants · $25.0M
Shepherd Center Foundation1 grant · $25.0M
Atlanta Beltline Partnership2 grants · $23.0M
Apf Support Inc Fbo Atlanta Police Foundation3 grants · $22.0M
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center2 grants · $20.0M
Georgia State University Foundation2 grants · $18.4M

Giving over time

$171.5M

2022

$189.6M

2023

$182.3M

2024

$190.3M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 116 grants.

$90.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Acquisition of the former Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston campus.
$75.0M
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Establishment of the Woodruff and Whitehead Affordable Housing Donor Advised Fund.
$60.0M
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Development of Georgia State University's Panther Quad and associated improvements from 100 Edgewood to Woodruff Park.
$40.0M
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Renovation of Crestview Health and Rehabilitation Center, expansion of neighborhood outpatient centers, and other priority projects as part of Grady Health Systems $110 million campaign.
$35.0M
Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support for Emory + Children's Pediatric Institute research plan.
$25.0M
Shepherd Center Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
$286 million campaign to expand facilities and programs for neurological treatment, rehabilitation and research.
$20.0M
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Development of Georgia State University's Panther Quad and associated improvements from 100 Edgewood to Woodruff Park.
$18.0M
Atlanta Beltline Partnership · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Completion of the 22-mile trail corridor loop ($75 million) and support for the Legacy Resident Retention Program ($2.5 million) and Partnership operations ($2.5 million).
$15.5M
Atlanta Area Council Scouting America · Atlanta, GA · 2025
$49.1 million campaign to develop Woodruff Scout Camp into a premier destination.
$15.0M
Georgia State University Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Renovation of the Bell Buildings to house student success services and the National Institute for Student Success.
$13.1M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2025
2025 capital and operating needs.
$13.0M
Atlanta Beltline Partnership · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Completion of the 22-mile trail corridor loop ($75 million) and support for the Legacy Resident Retention Program ($2.5 million) and Partnership operations ($2.5 million).
$12.6M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2024
2024 capital and operating needs.
$12.5M
Georgia Tech Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Phase III construction of Tech Square.
$12.5M
Georgia Tech Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Phase III construction of Tech Square.
$12.3M
Atlanta Beltline Partnership · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Completion of the 22-mile trail corridor loop ($75 million) and support for the Legacy Resident Retention Program ($2.5 million) and Partnership operations ($2.5 million).
$12.0M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2023
2023 capital and operating needs.
$11.2M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2022
2022 capital and operating needs.
$10.7M
Atlanta Beltline Partnership · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Completion of the 22-mile trail corridor loop ($75 million) and support for the Legacy Resident Retention Program ($2.5 million) and Partnership operations ($2.5 million).
$10.0M
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023
$67 million campaign to update facilities and community spaces.
$10.0M
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
$67 million campaign to update facilities and community spaces.
$10.0M
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Renovation of Crestview Health and Rehabilitation Center, expansion of neighborhood outpatient centers, and other priority projects as part of Grady Health Systems $110 million campaign.
$10.0M
Apf Support Inc Fbo Atlanta Police Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Construction of enhancement projects identified by the community for the Public Safety Training Center campus.
$10.0M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2022
Implementation of master facilities plan.
$8.5M
National Center for Civil and Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Campaign to expand the museum with two new wings.
$8.0M
The Henry W Grady Health System Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Construction of training facilities ($6.6 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($5 million) in partnership with Georgia State University.
$7.7M
Georgia State University Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Construction of training facilities ($10 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($2 million) in partnership with Grady Health System.
$6.0M
Atlanta History Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
$48.5 million centennial anniversary campaign to improve the museum with new exhibits, digital storytelling, childrens offerings and campus updates.
$6.0M
Atlanta Fulton County Zoo · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Renovation of giant panda habitat to meet conservation standards and enhance guests' experience.
$6.0M
Apf Support Inc Fbo Atlanta Police Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
$90 million campaign to support a comprehensive public safety strategy.
$6.0M
Atlanta Historical Society · Atlanta, GA · 2023
$49.5 million centennial anniversary campaign to improve the museum with new exhibits, digital storytelling, childrens offerings and campus updates.
$6.0M
Apf Support Inc Fbo Atlanta Police Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
$90 million campaign to support a comprehensive public safety strategy.
$6.0M
Morehouse School of Medicine · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Completion of $25 million campaign to renovate the Hugh M. Gloster and Medical Education Buildings.
$5.0M
Berry College · Mount Berry, GA · 2024
$33.4 million campaign to construct a health sciences building.
$5.0M
The Conservation Fund · Arlington, VA · 2025
Acquisition of 7,764-acre Twin Pines property adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp.
$5.0M
Trust for Public Land · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support of Chattahoochee RiverLands demonstration project.
$5.0M
University of Georgia Foundation · Athens, GA · 2023
Renovation of the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building.
$5.0M
University of Georgia Foundation · Athens, GA · 2022
Renovation of the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building.
$4.0M
Fernbank · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Construction of new exhibits, galleries and accessibility projects as part of $25 million campaign.
$4.0M
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support for operations as Art Partners transition to a new budget model.
$3.5M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support to expand the nurse residency program at Emory Healthcare ($5 million) and pilot a nurse fellowship program at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ($3.5 million).
$3.4M
Georgia State University Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Construction of training facilities ($10 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($2 million) in partnership with Grady Health System.
$3.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support to expand the nurse residency program at Emory Healthcare ($5 million) and pilot a nurse fellowship program at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ($3.5 million).
$3.0M
Feeding Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support of matching capital grants for member food banks ($4,900,000) and a statewide hunger study ($100,000).
$2.6M
Ichauway Incorporated · Newton, GA · 2023
Implementation of master facilities plan.
$2.5M
Georgia Cities Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of a revolving loan fund for downtown development projects in small Georgia cities.
$2.5M
Georgia World Congress Center Authority · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of improvements to the Fountain of Rings at Centennial Olympic Park.
$2.5M
Hj Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Capital expansion as part of $44.5 million campaign to support entrepreneurs in Atlanta.
$2.5M
American Cancer Society · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support of research partnership with the Winship Cancer Institute.
$2.5M
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School · Rabun Gap, GA · 2023
$9.5 million campaign to renovate Hodgson Hall.
$2.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support to expand the nurse residency program at Emory Healthcare ($5 million) and pilot a nurse fellowship program at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ($3.5 million).
$2.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship program.
$2.0M
Park Pride · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of the Legacy Grant Program to provide grants for park improvement projects.
$2.0M
American Red Cross · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Helene in Georgia.
$2.0M
Grady Health Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Construction of training facilities ($6.6 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($5 million) in partnership with Georgia State University.
$2.0M
Path Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
$17.6 million campaign to add 18 new miles of trails.
$2.0M
Feeding Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support of matching capital grants for member food banks ($4,900,000) and a statewide hunger study ($100,000).
$2.0M
Path Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
$17.6 million campaign to add 18 new miles of trails.
$2.0M
American Cancer Society · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support of research partnership with the Winship Cancer Institute.
$2.0M
Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support for Clubs in Georgia and metro Atlanta to address learning loss related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
$1.7M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship program.
$1.7M
Park Pride · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of the Legacy Grant Program to provide grants for park improvement projects.
$1.7M
Park Pride · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Continued support of the Legacy Grant Program to support park improvement projects.
$1.7M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support of the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship program.
$1.6M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support of the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship program.
$1.6M
The Henry W Grady Health System Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Construction of training facilities ($6.6 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($5 million) in partnership with Georgia State University.
$1.5M
American Cancer Society · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of research partnership with the Winship Cancer Institute.
$1.5M
Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of Downtown Reimagined initiative.
$1.5M
Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative · Atlanta, GA · 2022
$10 million campaign to update technology, expand newsroom, and build digital audiences.
$1.5M
Park Pride Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Expansion of the Legacy Grant Program to support park improvement projects as part of $14 million campaign.
$1.3M
Woodward Academy · College Park, GA · 2024
$12.5 million Phase I campaign to renovate Brewster Hall and construct the Chapel Garden Pavilion.
$1.2M
Robert W Woodruff Library of the Auc · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Completion of the Exhibition Hall for library serving the Atlanta University Center.
$1.0M
Chastain Park Conservancy · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Development of Northside Youth Organization facilities.
$1.0M
Chattahoochee Nature Center · Roswell, GA · 2025
$9.8 million campaign for capital improvements to expand environmental education programs.
$1.0M
Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of Downtown Reimagined initiative.
$1.0M
National Infantry Museum Foundation · Columbus, GA · 2025
Support of technology upgrades to enhance visitors' experience as part of $15 million campaign.
$1.0M
Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area · Augusta, GA · 2024
Disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Helene in Georgia.
$1.0M
Jewish Homelife · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Improvements to William Breman Jewish Home and Balser Tower as part of $15.25 million campaign.
$1.0M
Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative · Atlanta, GA · 2023
$10 million campaign to update technology, expand newsroom, and build digital audiences.
$1.0M
National Trust for Local News · Lexington, MA · 2023
Establishment of the Georgia Trust for Local News to strengthen community newspapers.
$963,000
Georgia Research Alliance · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support for a collaborative initiative to research neurodegenerative diseases and establishment of the Calvin Smyre GRA Eminent Scholar Chair.
$855,000
Georgia State University Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Construction of training facilities ($10 million) and expansion of nursing education pipeline ($2 million) in partnership with Grady Health System.
$775,000
Capacity · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of streetscape improvements in downtown Atlanta.
$750,000
National Center for Civil and Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of marketing and communications to promote the expanded museum.
$750,000
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force · Savannah, GA · 2023
$10 million campaign to expand the museum with new space for exhibitions, collections and education programs.
$680,000
Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of study to evaluate regional water needs and supply sources.
$500,000
Furkids · Cumming, GA · 2025
$14.5 million campaign to complete shelters for animal rescue organization.
$500,000
Grant Park Conservancy · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Renovation of the Southeast Quadrant, Ormond Plaza and Courtyard, and Park Care Center as part of $6 million campaign.
$500,000
Parkinson'S Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023
Expansion of research partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine to increase access to genetic testing and accelerate clinical trials for Parkinson's disease.
$500,000
Atlanta Humane Society & Society Prevention of Cruelty To Animals · Atlanta, GA · 2022
$21.7 million campaign to construct the Atlanta Animal Care Center.
$500,000
Chastain Horse Park Ltd · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Expansion of therapeutic riding facilities.
$425,000
Georgia Center for Nonprofits · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Support of operations ($350,000) and Future Forward projects ($75,000) to stabilize and strengthen nonprofits in Georgia.
$400,000
The Nature Conservancy · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support for pilot program to test and advance policy for sustainable water management in the Lower Flint River Basin.
$350,000
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Support of KFF Health News' Southern bureau to increase reporting in Georgia.
$350,000
Kidspeace · Bowdon, GA · 2024
Facility improvements for Bowdon campus, a residential treatment facility for youth with mental health and behavioral challenges.
$300,000
University of Georgia Foundation · Athens, GA · 2023
Support through 2024 of the Georgia Legislative Leadership Institute, a leadership development program for freshmen members of the Georgia General Assembly.
$250,000
Georgia Center for Nonprofits · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of operations and capacity-building programs to strengthen nonprofits in Georgia.
$250,000
Wylde Center · Decatur, GA · 2024
$2.9 million campaign to improve greenspaces and expand environmental education programs.
$250,000
Georgia Center for Nonprofits · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support of operations and capacity-building programs to strengthen nonprofits in Georgia.
$250,000
Georgia Center for Nonprofits · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support of operations and capacity-building programs to strengthen nonprofits in Georgia.

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.