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The Winans Family Foundation at a glance

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The Winans 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$54kEducation$49kArts & Culture$12kAnimals$10kHealth$1kReligion$1kRecreation & Sports$750Food & Nutrition$344Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$25,000
COLLEGE OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATI$20,000
GOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,500
THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL$5,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$3,000
AUXILIARY HOSPICE OF THE GOLDEN ISL$500
SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES ACT RECREATION$350
WESLEY CHURCH AT FREDERICA$344
GRACE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK$100
COLLEGE OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATI$100
ST SIMONS AFRICAN AMER HERIT COALIT$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE: $100 → 14%SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES ACT RECREATION: $350 → 14%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 7 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$124k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+45%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +23%
  • CO
    College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GI
    GOLDEN ISLES ARTS HUMANITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • GA
    GEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $550 · revenue -89%
  • CH
    CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $400
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
Georgia Association of Conservation Districts Inc

Advocating for the conservation of Georgias natural resources by providing organization, leadership and a unified strategic direction to the soil and water conservation districts of the state.

Environment
2
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
3
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
4
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
5
American College of Gastroenterology

Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…

Health
6
Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large

Health
7
South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals
8
Georgia Symphony Orchestra

The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…

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9
Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment
10
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
11
Georgia State Golf Association

Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia

Recreation & Sports
12
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope 1312 Collective 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $54,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENCollege Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc: $40,100 · EducationCollege Of Coastal Georgia Foundati…THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL: $9,000 · OtherTHE STONY BRO…GOLDEN ISLES ARTS HUMANITIES: $2,500 · OtherGOLDEN ISLES …WESLEY CHURCH AT FREDERICA: $2,444 · OtherWESLEY CHURCH…AUXILIARY HOSPICE OF THE GOLDEN ISL: $600 · Other+3 more: $600 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society: $9,500 · AnimalsGOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $8,600 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC: $550 · HealthSOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ACTIVE RECREATION INC: $350 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK INC: $100 · Human ServicesHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INC: $100 · Human Services
Environment$54,000Education$40,100Other$15,144Animals$9,500Arts & Culture$8,700Health$550Human Services$550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc: $40,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STONY BROOK SCHOOL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $8,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ACTIVE RECREATION INC: $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST SIMONS AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE COALITION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INC: $100 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.

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.

Communities of Coasta…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Winans Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winans Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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, 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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