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Winding Road Foundation

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.

$231k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Health$249kHuman Services$30kInternational$30kFood & Nutrition$20kYouth Development$18kCrime & Legal$14kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$13,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSEY CANCER CENTER$90,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING$13,500
PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$13,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
VA PENINSULA FOOD BANK$10,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH$10,000
SMITHFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
OU MEDICINE INC$7,500
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL$7,500
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VA: $10k → 19%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
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
2
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
4
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
5
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
6
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
8
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
9
Sentara Rmh Medical Center

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
10
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
11
Providence Health & Services - Washington

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
12
Healing Strides of Virginia

To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

10 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. 10 of the 23 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $90,000 · OtherMASSEY CANCER CENTERRIVERSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDREAM CATCHERS: $20,000 · OtherDREAM CATCHERSNATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherPANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherSMITHFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $22,500 · Other+3 moreChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $20,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…NAMI National: $15,000 · HealthNAMI NationalTHE JED FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDAT…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $7,500 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH …SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,000 · ReligionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionNATASHA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$283,000Health$57,500Religion$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CATCHERS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATASHA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $7,500 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DREAM CATCHERS ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATASHA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, 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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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