· Private foundation
The J & M Foundation Co David & Deborah Winston
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 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOLFTRAP FOUNDATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $7,500 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE FIELD | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The J & M Foundation Co David & Deborah Winston’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +76%- TCThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +130%
- AFAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +257%
Funded once
- NSNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -67%
- VLVermont Law Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +71%
- TMTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +63%
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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Founded in 1942, the American Musicological Society (AMS) exists to expand understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning, and advocacy.
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
The mission of The Washington Chorus is to create transformative musical experiences that bring people together through the joy of choral music.
Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual…
The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. As Middle Tennessee continues to grow and transform, the Nashville Symphony will be a financially robust,…
The washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The J & M Foundation Co David & Deborah Winston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J & M Foundation Co David & Deborah Winston. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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