· Private foundation
Richard a Winnestaffer Family Foundation
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLYING HORSE FARMS | $7,500 |
| SLEEPING DOGS LAW ENFORCEMENT MC | $1,100 |
| GAHANNA JEFFERSON EDUCATION FOUNDAT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHEPHERD CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE3× · 2017–2019 · $24k
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank3× · 2020–2022 · $19k · revenue +5%
- FHFLYING HORSE FARMS2× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue -4%
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
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 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,…
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…
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…
The mission of future smiles is to increase access to oral healthcare in underserved populations.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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
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 Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- 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 The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GAHANNA JEFFERSON EDUCATION ASSOC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard a Winnestaffer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard a Winnestaffer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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