· Private foundation
Phyllis M Winings Trust
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL COMMUNITY 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $220,468 |
| ARGENTA PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH | $20,530 |
| MACON COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| ARGENTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,747 |
| ARGENTA-OREANA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $11,637 |
| ARGENTA IN MOTION | $9,099 |
| PRAIRIE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,600 |
| OREANA BAPIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.
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
- APARGENTA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH3× · 2021–2023 · $70k
- AUARGENTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH2× · 2024–2025 · $41k
- APARGENTA-OREANA PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2024–2025 · $41k
Funded once
- APARGENTA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $51k
- AJARGENTA-OREANA JFLone grant, 2022 · $12k
- GBGALILEE BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2023 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.
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 2021–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 22 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.
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