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W Sherman Winseman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE (AND ORANGE) | $102,679 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $69,129 |
| BURRITO PROJECT | $29,734 |
| VALLEY ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $28,080 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,776 |
| HEAR CENTER | $22,671 |
| PUBLIC USE VIA WSWF PROGRAMS | $21,541 |
| HAVEN HOUSE | $7,485 |
| OPEN DOOR NETWORK | $4,405 |
| VEHICLES FOR VETERANS | $3,381 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,094 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $2,878 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY | $1,829 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL | $1,101 |
| OC RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 18 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- OCORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH5× · 2020–2024 · $327k · revenue +0%
HAVEN HOUSE3× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +41%- VAValley Achievement Center3× · 2022–2024 · $71k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- MSMISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANOone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SWSCHOLARSHIP WEST COAST NURSING SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $7k
- MKMISSION KERN COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
To empower survivors to heal and engage all individuals and communities to address and prevent sexual assault and intimate partner violence
Delivering compassionate support and exceptional care in the home for individuals and communities, guiding them with choice and dignity to navigate significant care decisions.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Mission statement: hope, healing, safety, social change. working together to end domestic and partner violence. vision statement: a community unified in peace, justice, and equity, for the safety and well-being of every individual.
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haven House of Montrose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 67 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 ORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Valley Achievement Center ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hear Center ↗
- Who funds Haven House of Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINDA BLAIR WORLD HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · California Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 W Sherman Winseman 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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