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The Wine Enthusiast Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Wine Enthusiast Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$123kHealth$79kPhilanthropy$56kFood & Nutrition$49kCommunity Improvement$49kEducation$41kHuman Services$32kInternational$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,783
Median grant
5
States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Roots Fund$11,000
Individual grant recipient$5,100
Sunrise Day Camp-Long Island$5,000
Jacob Burns Film Center inc$5,000
The Phil Ramone Orchestra for Child$4,000
American Cancer Society$3,000
Association of African American Vin$2,783
Rethink Food$2,005
Girl Scouts of Greater New York$1,250
Caramoor Center for Music and the A$500
WQXR$107
Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance$100
National Public Radio$12
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Sunflower of Peace: $2k → 8%Corazon Healdsburg: $20k → 9%Sunrise Day Camp-Long Island: $5k → 7%Wine on Wheels: $10k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 13 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
50

Total granted

$206k
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+20%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • JB
    JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +15%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KAREN INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • CV
    CHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $300 · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • RF
    RETHINK FOOD NYC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • NR
    Nat'l Restaurant Assoc Edu Foundati
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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 Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
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
3
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
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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8
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic 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 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Westchester Community College Found: $25,000 · OtherWestchester Community College FoundNat'l Restaurant Assoc Edu Foundati: $25,000 · OtherNat'l Restaurant Assoc Edu FoundatiCity Harvest Food Rescue Center: $20,000 · OtherCity Harvest Food Rescue CenterClearwaterOrg: $17,100 · OtherClearwaterOrgFIBROLAMELLAR REGISTRY INC: $15,000 · OtherFIBROLAMELLAR REGISTRY INCAssociation of African American Vin: $12,783 · OtherAssociation of African American VinWINE UNIFY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherWomen of the Vine Spirits: $10,000 · OtherCrohn's Colitis Foundation: $10,000 · OtherROOTS FUND INC: $11,000 · Other+38 more: $71,275 · Other+38 moreJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $84,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER…Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $22,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Mus…+4 more: $387 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,109 · HealthAMERICAN CA…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · HealthNORTHERN WE…FRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $12,200 · HealthFRIENDS OF …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20,000 · Human ServicesWINE ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,474 · InternationalRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$237,158Arts & Culture$106,387Health$49,809Human Services$36,500Housing & Shelter$28,000International$27,474Food & Nutrition$25,000

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 budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $84,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,109 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $12,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS FUND INC: $11,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWINE UNIFY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWINE ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION RARITAN BAY AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,474 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIV LIKE A UNICORN: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $12 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Wine Enthusiast Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wine Enthusiast Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 71 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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