· Private foundation
Charles and Melanie Winton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $338k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL | $69,458 |
| Individual grant recipient | $58,500 |
| CMS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| CHAPPELL MEMORIAL BAPTIST (CHARLOTTE) | $25,000 |
| GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION | $10,000 |
| HEALING HEARTS HEALING HOMES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH STATESVILLE | $10,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCMS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +161%
- BSBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +162%
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2023 · $153k
- TDTHE DIAMOND EFFECT INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $126k
- MTMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +45%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Express Ministries ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTFULLANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Melanie Winton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Melanie Winton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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