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The Winter Family Foundation at a glance

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The Winter 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.

$44k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$354kHealth$84kReligion$66kHuman Services$13kScience & Tech$10kEnvironment$2kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$25,000
MCAULEY MINISTRIES$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITY FUND APPEAL$5,000
BUTTON HOLE$1,000
OCEAN TIDES SCHOOL$500
SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST$500
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FERRY CHURCH$500
HASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$500
SEAN M HEALEY AND AMG CENTER FOR ALS$300
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 (FY19–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%HOME & HOSPICE CARE OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%HOME & HOSPICE CARE OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 14%HOME & HOSPICE CARE OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 14%HOME & HOSPICE CARE OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 14%HOME & HOSPICE CARE OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $500 → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $500 → 7%CROSSROADS RI: $1k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $500 → 7%CROSSROADS RI: $500 → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
PA
RI
VA
TN
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 23 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
13

Total granted

$518k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+52%

Still filing today

61%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • BUTLER HOSPITAL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +59%
  • MCAULEY CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +66%
  • TT
    THE TOMORROW FUND
    2× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SA
    SINO AMERICAN AVIATION HERITAGE FOU
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WF
    WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • DL
    DE LA SALLE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
2
Care New England Health System

Care new england is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

Health
3
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri

Women & infants hospital of rhode island, a teaching hospital of the warren alpert school of medicine at brown university, is committed to improving the health and well being of women and infants and to providing essential services…

Health
4
Kent County Memorial Hospital

Kent county memorial hospital is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve, offering our essential services without regard for ability to pay. please refer to schedule o for the…

Health
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Rhode Island; the most unlike its peers is Sino American Aviation Heritage Fou. 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

19 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. 19 of the 38 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROUT SCHOOL: $350,000 · OtherPROUT SCHOOLGRATEFUL FOR GODS PROVIDENCE: $37,500 · OtherGRATEFUL FOR GODS PROVIDENCEST JUDE HOSPITAL: $28,700 · OtherST JUDE HOSPITALCATHOLIC CHARITY FUND: $25,300 · Other+19 more: $53,100 · Other+19 moreBUTLER HOSPITAL: $11,500 · HealthTHOMAS GCAVANAGH MEMORIAL FUNDINC: $9,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $6,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $3,500 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST: $2,100 · EnvironmentRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,500 · Public BenefitBUTTON HOLE: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND: $500 · Animals
Other$494,600Health$29,700Human Services$9,000Environment$2,100Food & Nutrition$2,000Public Benefit$1,500Recreation & Sports$1,500Animals$500

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 budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS GCAVANAGH MEMORIAL FUNDINC: $9,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUTTON HOLE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SINO AMERICAN AVIATION HERITAGE FOU ↗
  • Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS GCAVANAGH MEMORIAL FUNDINC ↗
  • Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION 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.

Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…The Rhode Island Comm…Citizens Charitable F…Textron Charitable Tr…Harborone Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…The Beacon FoundationMutual of America Fou…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…
Amica Companies FoundationRI28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Winter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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 38 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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