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Up-Wingers Inc at a glance

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Up-Wingers 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$222kHuman Services$102kInternational$50kHealth$42kEducation$6kCommunity Improvement$3kEnvironment$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$44k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center of Hope (Haiti) Inc$5,000
The Everglades Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

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, $65k) 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%East End Hospice: $500 → 7%Jafco Children's Foundation: $15k → 13%Center of Hope (Haiti) Inc: $5k → 9%Center of Hope(Haiti): $10k → 12%East End Hospice: $250 → 7%Center of Hope (Haiti) Inc: $5k → 9%Center of Hope(Haiti): $10k → 12%East End Hospice: $250 → 7%Center of Hope(Haiti): $10k → 12%East End Hospice: $100 → 7%Center of Hope(Haiti): $8k → 12%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $500 → 17%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
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NM
HI
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$394k · 32 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
28

Total granted

$394k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+58%

Still filing today

69%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BS
    BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +57%
  • BF
    BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +276%
  • CA
    Concert Artists Guild Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • JC
    JAFCO Children's Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +219%
  • SC
    Smith College - Ada Comstock Scholership Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -93%
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
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Foundation for Modern Opera
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7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
Artis-Naples Inc

Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.

Arts & Culture
9
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance

Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera; the most unlike its peers is The Prologue Society 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

34 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. 34 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INCBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA): $24,500 · Arts & CultureBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA)Concert Artists Guild Inc: $22,950 · Arts & CultureConcert Artists Guild IncAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BERLIN STAATSOPER INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BERLIN STAATSOPER INCTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN OPERA CLUB: $8,129 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $14,625 · Arts & Culture+13 moreNorthside Center: $85,000 · OtherNorthside CenterSylvester Development Cancer Center: $35,000 · OtherSylvester Development Cancer CenterPianofest Inc: $15,000 · OtherPianofest IncFunding Arts Network: $12,870 · OtherFunding Arts Network+28 more: $29,160 · Other+28 moreCENTER OF HOPE HAITI INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesCENTER OF HOPE HA…JAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesJAFCO Children's …+2 more: $2,600 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC: $6,074 · PhilanthropyTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $1,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITY: $750 · EducationTHE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON: $1,250 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$178,204Other$177,030Human Services$65,100Philanthropy$6,074Environment$2,000Education$1,750Community Improvement$1,250

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 budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE HAITI INC: $47,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA): $24,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc: $22,950 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BERLIN STAATSOPER INC: $19,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPianofest Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN OPERA CLUB: $8,129 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC: $6,074 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonen Foundation of America: $2,750 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $1,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRA MIAMI INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS INTERESTED IN ARTS INC: $1,025 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJ & Ar FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · J & Ar Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Up-Wingers Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Up-Wingers Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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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How do I get to Up-Wingers Inc?

Find your warmest path to Up-Wingers 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.

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 60 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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