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The James L& Susan G Winter Foundation at a glance

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The James L& Susan G Winter 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.

$777k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$610k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.5MPhilanthropy$814kReligion$161kHealth$132kInternational$53kArts & Culture$52kCivil Rights$39kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $610k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$610,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$100,000
PERSON TO PERSON$35,000
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$5,000
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$3,600
Individual grant recipient$3,500
B THE DIFFERENCE$2,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$1,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$1,000
PROJECT RENEWAL INC$1,000
AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY$1,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARIAN HOUSE: $500 → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $500 → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $500 → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $500 → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $500 → 19%AFYA FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
MD
DC
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 42 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
9

Total granted

$6.7M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+110%

Still filing today

69%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +64%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $575k · revenue +39%
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $208k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • HP
    HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -50%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +110%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Renewal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

35 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. 35 of the 53 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,212,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+4 more: $245,000 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $575,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWIS…PERSON TO PERSON INC: $207,500 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PE…COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE: $160,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherWHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER: $35,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $16,000 · Other+23 more: $87,250 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $19,800 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,125 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 · International+1 more: $548 · InternationalSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $850 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $7,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $2,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $19,000 · Civil Rights
Education$5,457,500Philanthropy$782,500Other$460,750International$48,223Arts & Culture$43,350Health$22,000Civil Rights$19,000

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 budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,212,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $575,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $207,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $19,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOBER HOUSES OF WESTCHESTER INC: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $548 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWYORKREP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The James L& Susan G Winter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James L& Susan G Winter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Marian House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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