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The Winmax Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$284k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$501k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Winmax Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$187k19%
FY202416$128k25%
FY202314$113k7%
FY202215$180k27%
FY202117$160k24%
FY202023$785k26%
FY201920$454k10%
FY201827$248k41%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.1MArts & Culture$523kCommunity Improvement$331kEducation$322kEnvironment$104kInternational$104kHealth$97kPhilanthropy$78kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Winmax Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVail Performing Arts Academy: $97,400 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $95,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGuardian Scholars Inc: $92,000 over 9y, 36% of budgetEducation Foundation of Eagle Cnty: $69,850 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetVail Health Services Foundation: $62,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVail Religious Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $33,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRachel's Network Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVilar Performing Arts Center Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetThe Vail Jazz Foundation Inc: $29,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetVail Christian Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVail Veterans Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEagle Valley Mental Health: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarting Hearts: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Ski Museum Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVail Mountain Rescue Group Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFor The Good: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVail Centre: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Class Accessibility Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Valley Horse Rescue: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBorder Community Alliance Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVail Mountain School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteadman Philippon Research Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVMI Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaysville Players Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · The Ronald Davis Family Foundation · Borgen Family Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · Mantz Foundation · The EPIK Foundation Inc · The Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma)

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.

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How do I get to The Winmax Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Winmax Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Winmax Foundation Inc

How much does The Winmax Foundation Inc give?
The Winmax Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $283,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Winmax Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (39%), Arts & Culture (19%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are The Winmax Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bright Futures Foundation ($101k), Vail Performing Arts Academy ($97k), Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ($95k).
Does The Winmax Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Winmax Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Winmax Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Precourt Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is The Winmax Foundation Inc based?
The Winmax Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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