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· Private foundation

The Mona and Melvin Winger Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$505kEducation$460kReligion$304kHuman Services$207kRecreation & Sports$50kArts & Culture$30kInternational$4kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$598k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$72,500
ST PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY$15,000
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN$10,000
STANTON CO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION I$5,000
MULLINS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC$2,000
MANTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$985
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%EMBER HOPE YOUTHVILLE: $100k → 9%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $1k → 10%RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 12%EMBERHOPE INC: $3k → 9%RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 12%EMBER HOPE YOUTHVILLE: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
NY
CO
NE
KS
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$945k · 9 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$945k
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

33%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • EI
    EMBERHOPE INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $104k · revenue +266%
  • TR
    THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $103k · revenue +31%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • CL
    CAMP LAKESIDE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SH
    SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kingdom Capital Fund

People desire to make a real difference in the world, but it's hard to know how. kingdom capital fund brings people together to use their time, talent, and treasure for a kingdom impact. we do this in two ways: 1) multiply gifts through an…

Religion
2
Kansas Association of School Boards Inc

To assist local boards of education and related educational entities in their responsibilities to assure a quality public education for all students.

3
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
4
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
5
Westminster School

To educate children by engaging them actively in experiences that challenge students to solve problems as cooperative, confident, and responsible learners.

6
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

7
United Way of Central Kansas Inc

United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

Philanthropy
8
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

9
Kansas Family Voice Inc

Kfv seeks to establish a kansas where god is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished.

10
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
11
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
12
Sanford Group Return

Sanford health is committed to the healthcare needs of communities throughout the upper midwest. sanford health provides a full range of primary and specialty healthcare services and strives to be the premier rural health system in the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bibles for China Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU — $500,000 · OtherSEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUST PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — $414,666 · OtherST PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $213,225 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH-JOHNS — $57,000 · OtherCAMP LAKESIDE — $50,000 · Other+14 more — $51,810 · OtherEMBERHOPE INC — $104,000 · Human ServicesEMBERHOPE INCTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $103,000 · Human ServicesTHE RUSSELL CHI…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC — $4,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIP INTERNATIONAL — $3,000 · ReligionBIBLES FOR CHINA INC — $1,000 · ReligionUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $500 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC — $400 · InternationalLINDSAY AREA DEVELOPMENT — $500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,286,701Human Services$208,000Education$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000Health$4,000Religion$4,000International$900Community Improvement$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMBERHOPE INC — $104,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $103,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLES FOR CHINA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINDSAY AREA DEVELOPMENT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds EMBERHOPE INC
  • Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC
  • Who funds BIBLES FOR CHINA INC
  • Who funds LINDSAY AREA DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Western Kansas Community FoundationKS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Kansas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Mona and Melvin Winger 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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