· Private foundation
John Winthrop Charitable Trust
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $431k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $69,035 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SC | $68,173 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $65,553 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| A FATHER'S PLACE | $53,022 |
| CITADEL FOUNDATION | $50,532 |
| INDIAN MTN SCHOOL | $43,313 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BLDG ARTS | $36,000 |
| GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE | $35,959 |
| TRIDENT UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $12,774 |
| WINDWOOD FAMILY SERVICES | $11,500 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $11,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +133%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +288%- WUWinthrop University Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $190k
- FOFRIENDS OF PUBLIC GARDENone grant, 2018 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $11k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
103 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. 103 of the 232 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds A Father's Place ↗
- Who funds FATHER TO FATHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMORY L LORING TREASURER ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Clyde and Summer Anderson Foundation · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · Roy and Amanda Maybank Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Winthrop Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Winthrop Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association: 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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