· Private foundation
The Winchester Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $34,450 |
| BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE ASHBROOK CENTER | $10,000 |
| INDIANA BAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $7,500 |
| IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,294 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RANDOLPH | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| MINNETRISTA CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $5,000 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REMNANT TRUST INC4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +61%
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +45%
- TFTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- WCWalbash Collegeone grant, 2019 · $132k
- TUTaylor Universityone grant, 2018 · $35k
- BUButler Universityone grant, 2018 · $21k
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.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 59 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 ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE REMNANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RANDOLPH COUNTY 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.
Open a dossier: Pierre F & Enid Goodrich Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Winchester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winchester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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