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Winans Trust at a glance

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Winans Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2021
21
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$18kHealth$15kHuman Services$12kEducation$12kReligion$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE$5,000
THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
CANOPY CHILDRENS SOLUTIONS$5,000
SHAW BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
THE BAPTIST CHILDRENS VILLAGE$5,000
HOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY$5,000
MOUNTAIN AIR MUSIC INC$5,000
OURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS GUILD$5,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$5,000
OURAY MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM$2,500
OURAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIORS OF MISSISSIPPI$2,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GALLANT HEARTS GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1k → 11%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.
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 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
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
2
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
3
Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitatio
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4
Ouachita Mountains Biological Station
Environment
5
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
7
Camp Bullwheel Inc
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8
Whiskey Acres Sanctuary Mindy James
Animals
9
Rocky Mountain Horse Foundation
Science & Tech
10
Rocky Mountain Health Foundation
Health
11
Arkansas Weimaraner Rescue

To provide veterinary care and homes for weimaraners rescued from shelters, found as strays, surrendered by their owners or confiscated by officials from abusive or neglected situations.

Animals
12
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ouray Mountain Rescue Team 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BAPTIST CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $5,000 · OtherTHE BAPTIST CHILDRENS VILLAGETHE SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSHAW BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSHAW BAPTIST CHURCHMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETYOURAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherOURAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTMISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherOURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS GUILD INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOURAY COUNTY PERFORMING AR…MOUNTAIN AIR MUSIC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAIN AIR MUSICFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPER…MISSISSIPPI BLUES FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI BLUES FOUNDATI…FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $6,500 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMYHOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationHOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUN…THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUND…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthNational K…WOUNDED WARRIORS OF MISSISSIPPI: $2,000 · HealthWOUNDED WA…Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $1,890 · Youth DevelopmentGALLANT HEARTS GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$24,000Arts & Culture$17,000Education$16,500Health$7,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Animals$2,000Youth Development$1,890Human Services$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS GUILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOuray Mountain Rescue Team Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS OF MISSISSIPPI: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI BLUES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $1,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLANT HEARTS GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $500 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.

Ergon Foundation IncRaymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ergon Foundation IncMS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Winans Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winans Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 21 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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