· Private foundation
The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 282 grants below total $1,308,109 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,799,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $490,891 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k259 grants · $866k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS FUND | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST | $50,000 |
| HAWAII PEOPLE'S FUND | $25,000 |
| SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/FLICKER FUND | $25,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NY IDP | $15,000 |
| ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CA | $15,000 |
| REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| QUIXOTE CENTER | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE | $12,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND | $12,000 |
| HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND | $12,000 |
| NB3 NOTAH BEGAY III FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE COUNCIL OF MAINE | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 174 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $887k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND2× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +225%
- FFFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC2× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +27%
- RIREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES2× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC - COVID-19 COMMUNITY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $30k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -66%
- TSTHE SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC FLICKER FUNDone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the most unlike its peers is Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
325 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 325 of the 468 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc
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 Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co 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.
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides — 5% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.
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