· Private foundation
The Woltz-Winchester Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,800 |
| THE GODFREY MILLER HOME & FELLOWSHIP CENTER | $1,500 |
| WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $1,000 |
| VALLEY CHORALE OF FRONT ROYAL | $1,000 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $1,000 |
| C-CAP | $1,000 |
| WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| FRENCH & INDIAN WAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HANDLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| WINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WRWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue ×25
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC5× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +16%
- WAWINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES - FREDERICKWINCHESTERone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TYTHE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -21%
- FSFREMONT STREET NURSERYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +71%
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.
The winchester-frederick county historical society is dedicated to preserving and expanding the historical and cultural heritage of the city of winchester and frederick county. the society is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. society…
Recording and preserving history
To provide affordable, high-quality early childhood education services in a safe, nurturing and loving environment to children of low income working families.
The winchester parks foundation is a non profit, charitable organization formed to benefit the people of winchester, virginia, through financial support of the winchester parks and recreation department of the city of winchester
To provide fire protection in the winchester, va area.
Preservation of historic winchester, inc., organized by concerned members of the community and incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia, exists for the purpose of safeguarding the heritage of the winchester and frederick…
Provide historical records and documents
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Youth Development Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winchester Little Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 29 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
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.
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Winchester Little Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds KERNSTOWN BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds French and Indian War Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
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: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Dorothy M Overcash Charitable Trust First Bank Trustee · The Clara Weiss Fund · Feltner Community Foundation · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Brandt Foundation · Valley Health System
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 Woltz-Winchester Foundation 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.
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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