· Private foundation
The Woltz-Winchester Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,800 |
| WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| THE GODFREY MILLER HOME & FELLOWSHIP CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $1,000 |
| HANDLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| FRENCH & INDIAN WAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VALLEY CHORALE OF FRONT ROYAL | $1,000 |
| C-CAP | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| WINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $1,000 |
| FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- DDENIZENone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Woltz-Winchester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woltz-Winchester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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