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Joseph & May Winston 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCUCC | $14,640 |
| Hand in Hand | $10,000 |
| Valley Beit Midrash | $7,500 |
| Scottsdale Cong Church | $6,000 |
| Prescott Area Shelter Services | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AZ Jews For Justice | $5,000 |
| AZ Humane Society | $5,000 |
| Open Arms | $5,000 |
| Yatom | $5,000 |
| International Institute | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Assistance League of Phoenix | $4,000 |
| Partners For Pets | $3,000 |
| Treehouse Wildlife | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +113% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VBVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +135%
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +58%
- PAPrescott Area Shelter Services Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- VNValencia Newcomers Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
- OAOPEN ARMS FOR CHILDone grant, 2019 · $5k
OPEN ARMS HOME FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Jewish family & children's services of southern arizona helps all people meet their full potential by providing expert community and behavioral health services.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PETS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds FOSTER YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ACCEL ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ON THE STREET INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Friedel Family Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Sundt Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joseph & May Winston Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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