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Warner Foundation Inc

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.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MPublic Benefit$100kEducation$20kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $200
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$31,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE$54,400
JACK MILLER CENTER$45,000
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
GREENVILLE CO MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
FIGGE ART MUSEUM$31,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$30,000
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP$30,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TURNING POINT: $10k → 11%JACK MILLER CENTER: $45k → 7%THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 11%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $70k → 11%GREENVILLE CO MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 10%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $40k → 12%AMERICAN VILLAGE: $120k → 7%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $65k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $11k → 17%NEW BRITTAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $65k → 11%THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $79k → 11%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%JACK MILLER CENTER: $25k → 7%THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $68k → 11%FIGGE ART MUSEUM: $31k → 12%AMERICAN VILLAGE: $110k → 7%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 16%NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 11%THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $54k → 11%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 16%NEW BRITTAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 11%THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $60k → 11%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 7%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $54k → 11%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 16%NEW BRITTAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5k → 11%THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $200 → 11%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $49k → 11%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 16%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TC
    THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +8%
  • NB
    NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $130k · revenue +26%
  • FA
    FIGGE ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FI
    FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-STOCK
    one grant, 2022 · $226k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2020 · $11k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
4
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
5
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

6
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Museum of the American Revolution

The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.

Arts & Culture
9
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
10
Berggruen Institute
Education
11
The Toledo Museum of Art

For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…

Arts & Culture
12
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $230,210 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-STOCK — $225,919 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-STOCKTHE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $214,200 · OtherTHE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITYBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART — $190,900 · OtherBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ARTFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-CASH — $140,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-CASHJACK MILLER CENTER — $70,000 · OtherJACK MILLER CENTERGREENVILLE CO MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 · Other+3 more — $51,350 · OtherTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $324,900 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSENEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN A…FIGGE ART MUSEUM — $71,000 · Arts & CultureFIGGE ART MUSEUMLeadership Institute — $90,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $35,000 · Community ImprovementLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 · Education
Other$1,162,579Arts & Culture$525,900Public Benefit$100,000Community Improvement$35,000Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $324,900 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $130,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLeadership Institute — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $71,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
  • Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds TURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Warner Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Warner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Warner Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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