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Irving Winer Foundation at a glance

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Irving Winer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$135kHuman Services$69kAnimals$55kHealth$33kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kCommunity Improvement$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
$4,308
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$122,707
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER$60,000
Individual grant recipient$10,308
SAVE THE CHIMPS$6,108
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST$5,508
KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY$5,458
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$5,316
PRIMARILY PRIMATES$5,308
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,308
MEDICALERT FOUNDATION$4,308
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,308
PEREGRINE FUND$4,308
CARING FIELDS FELINES$2,808
THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$2,578
BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$2,577
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $123k → 10%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $500 → 14%PEREGRINE FUND: $4k → 8%MEDICALERT FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $700 → 6%LUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%HAWN FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $5k → 16%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $5k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST: $6k → 10%BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $3k → 11%TRINITY COLLEGE: $3k → 11%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%DRY EYE FOUNDATION: $600 → 10%KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5k → 12%ALLEY CAT RESCUE: $2k → 11%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADAMY: $3k → 10%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $350 → 6%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $2k → 16%CARING FIELDS FELINES: $3k → 10%BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $1k → 11%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $600 → 9%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $3k → 10%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $350 → 6%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $800 → 10%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $400 → 9%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $3k → 10%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $350 → 6%CARING FIELDS FELINES: $400 → 10%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $350 → 9%GOVENORS ACADEMY: $2k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4k → 16%PRIMARILY PRIMATES: $350 → 6%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $400 → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $1k → 10%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $4k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $400 → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $1k → 10%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $4k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $400 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600 → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $400 → 10%HOUSE OF HOPE: $1k → 10%HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60k → 10%HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
UT
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 13 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$278k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+29%

Still filing today

54%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHealthSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
    3× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +25%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +123%
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHIMPS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • GA
    GOVENORS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
6
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
7
Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals
8
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
9
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc

IFAWs strategy focuses on improving the welfare of individual animals and the conservation status of wildlife populations in priority habitats through on-the-ground efforts community engagement and global advocacy. Our dual emphasis on…

Animals
10
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
11
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
12
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $129,957 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY+2 more: $3,000 · EducationHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $67,500 · OtherHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $12,058 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,358 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $5,358 · Other+9 more: $11,600 · Other+9 moreSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $8,908 · AnimalsSAVE THE CHIMPS …HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $7,908 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY O…PRIMARILY PRIMATES INC: $7,616 · AnimalsPRIMARILY PRIMAT…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $7,058 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANI…THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,458 · AnimalsTHE KINDNESS RAN…Defenders of Wildlife: $5,316 · AnimalsDefenders of Wil…THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $3,749 · AnimalsTHE BUSCH WILDLI…+2 more: $450 · AnimalsDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,800 · HealthDana-Farbe…MEDIC ALERT FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $4,308 · HealthMEDIC ALER…+1 more: $600 · HealthCARING FIELDS FELINES INC: $4,408 · Social ScienceCHARITY WORKS INC: $100 · Community Improvement
Education$132,957Other$101,874Animals$46,463Health$30,708Social Science$4,408Community Improvement$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $129,957 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $8,908 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $7,908 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRIMARILY PRIMATES INC: $7,616 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $7,058 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,458 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $5,358 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $5,316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FIELDS FELINES INC: $4,408 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMEDIC ALERT FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $4,308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $3,749 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRY EYE FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY WORKS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Irving Winer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving Winer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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