Tony Wood

Board of Directors 

Anthony C. Wood is a grants maker, philanthropic advisor, preservation activist, writer, teacher, and historian. Since l993 Anthony C. Wood has been the Executive Director of the Ittleson Foundation. Prior to that he served as the Chief Program Officer at the J. M. Kaplan Fund and currently serves as an adviser to the Awardees of the J.M.K. Innovation Prize. He also serves as a senior philanthropic advisor to the Mai Family Foundation and the Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Foundation. For over twenty years he was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. He holds a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Illinois and is a graduate of Kenyon College. For over thirty years, Mr. Wood has served on a variety of non-profit boards ranging from small local grassroots organizations to large national nonprofits. He is the author of Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks (Routledge, 2008) and Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Love, and the Unimagined Life of Albert Sprague Bard (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025). He has assisted numerous non-profit organizations with strategic planning, including the Charleston Literary Festival, Edith Wharton’s The Mount, and the Preservation Society of Charleston.