How much does The Winters Family Fund give?

The Winters Family Fund reported 30 grants totaling $1,530,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Winters Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Human Services (7%), International (6%).

Who are The Winters Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($1.9M), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($655k), The Blue Card Inc ($410k).

Does The Winters Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Winters Family Fund 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 Winters Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is The Winters Family Fund based?

The Winters Family Fund is based in NY.

The Winters Family Fund

The Winters Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Winters Family Fund

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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$275k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.2MHuman Services$577kInternational$450kFood & Nutrition$390kCrime & Legal$355kHousing & Shelter$285kArts & Culture$190kEducation$168kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k18 grants · $330k
$50k–250k11 grants · $925k
$250k+1 grant · $275k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC	$275,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE	$200,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$125,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$100,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY	$100,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC	$75,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK	$75,000
YALE UNIVERSITY	$50,000
TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY	$50,000
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC	$50,000
THE BLUE CARD	$50,000
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE	$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC)	$30,000
SAFE HORIZON INC	$30,000
EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$9.2M · 44 repeat orgs$354k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.2M

$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+35%

Still filing today

64%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +12%
SH
SAFE HORIZON INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +50%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +98%

Funded once

WC
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
one grant, 2017 · $75k
SE
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc
one grant, 2024 · $50k
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
one grant, 2017 · $50k

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.

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

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc

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The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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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

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

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

Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary for Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Frick Foundation Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

26/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,143,200Health$3,065,000Human Services$1,210,000International$465,000Food & Nutrition$260,000Crime & Legal$205,000Education$180,000

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.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Winters Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winters Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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