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Norman Winer Charitable Trust at a glance

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Norman Winer Charitable Trust

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.

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.0M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$948k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Espanola Valley Humane Society$60,000
Anti Vivsection Society$20,000
Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement$20,000
Freinds of Roswell Animals$10,000
The Horse Shelter$10,000
Roots Animal Sanctuary$10,000
Animal Protection of New Mexico$5,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Maricopa County Animal Care and Control: $1k → 11%Project Samana Inc: $10k → 8%The Horse Shelter: $100k → 12%Roots Animal Sanctuary: $10k → 14%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $60k → 18%Compassion Over Killing: $10k → 14%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%Anti Vivsection Society: $20k → 14%Lucky Dog Animal Rescue: $20k → 7%PETA: $10k → 19%The Horse Shelter: $100k → 12%Roots Animal Sanctuary: $3k → 14%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $7k → 18%City Dogs and City Kitties Rescue: $5k → 14%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $95k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $75k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $70k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $60k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $60k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%The Horse Shelter: $10k → 12%Espanola Valley Humane Society: $5k → 18%Sunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $20k → 18%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

IL
MA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$924k · 7 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$924k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+51%

Still filing today

86%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TH
    THE HORSE SHELTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $570k · revenue +253%
  • EV
    ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +337%
  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • LD
    LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +13%
  • AO
    ANIMAL OUTLOOK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +82%
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
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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4
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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5
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
6
Animal Diplomacy

Supporting and assisting with rescue, sheltering, spay/neuter, and rehoming of cats and dogs in needy developing countries. Our current exclusive focus is on Egypt and the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals.

Animals
7
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
8
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
9
Good Dog Rescue

To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.

Animals
10
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
11
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
12
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Espanola Valley Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Project Samana 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HORSE SHELTER: $570,000 · AnimalsTHE HORSE SHELTERESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $97,000 · AnimalsESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO: $39,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $30,000 · Animals+8 more: $88,000 · Animals+8 moreSunkissed Acres Horse Rescue and Retirement: $160,000 · OtherSunkissed Acres Hors…Anti Vivsection Society: $20,000 · OtherAnti Vivsection Soci…+1 more: $1,000 · Other
Animals$824,000Other$181,000

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 budgetTHE HORSE SHELTER: $570,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $97,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO: $39,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Roswell Animals Inc FORA: $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetROOTS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $13,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY DOGS RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Carroll Petrie Founda…Best Friends Animal S…The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Carroll Petrie FoundationNM15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carroll Petrie Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Norman Winer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman Winer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Norman Winer Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Norman Winer Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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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