· Private foundation
Richard a Winnestaffer Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSHEPHERD CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE3× · 2017–2019 · $24k
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank3× · 2020–2022 · $19k · revenue +5%
- MGMESA GLOBAL5× · 2017–2021 · $8k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FTFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +11%
- UGUS GREEN BUILDING COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The mission of Alliance for Smiles, Inc (AfS) is to forever improve the lives of children and communities impacted by cleft and providing free comprehensive treatment, while building local capacity for long-term care. AFS does this by…
Provide or secure free medical services to poor, distressed and under- prilileged children and adults in bangladesh and other underserved areas of the world in the form of cleft lip and palate surgeries as well as any related surgical,…
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
It is our goal to alleviate the suffering of underserved patients born with facial congenital deformities with special emphasis on cleft lips and palates. we believe all communities deserve the right to receive first rate care by highly…
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
Feed The Kids Columbus strives to ensure food insecure children in Central Ohio have access to nutritious meals and snacks so they are able to learn and grow. There are as many as 12 million children in the United States who are at risk of…
The mission of future smiles is to increase access to oral healthcare in underserved populations.
Operation of Hope is a medical foundation that provides primarily cleft lip, cleft palate, facial reconstructive and general reconstructive surgery to children in Latin America, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Egypt and Mongolia. We care for the needy…
Feeding children everywhere is committed to providing healthy meals to those in need. we are committed to sustainability. creating a hunger-free world will be possible if we have an awareness of our impact on the world around us. we have…
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flying Horse Farms and the most unlike its peers is Gahanna Jefferson Education Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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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- Who funds FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GAHANNA JEFFERSON EDUCATION ASSOC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard a Winnestaffer Family 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.
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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