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Winegard Foundation at a glance

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Winegard 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.

$800k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MRecreation & Sports$750kHealth$604kCommunity Improvement$110kArts & Culture$53kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$9kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$547
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS COMPLEX$300,000
SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$300,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$200,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GARRETT M BROCKWAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 13 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$3.3M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

38%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +53%
  • BA
    BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +37%
  • IC
    IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FM
    FORT MADISON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +30%
  • KA
    KAYLA ATKINS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +13%
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
Eastern Iowa Community College District Downtown Campus Foundation

To support the fundraising efforts for and construction of a new scott community college urban campus in downtown davenport, iowa

Community Improvement
2
Iowa Western Community College Foundation

None

Education
3
Iowa Central Community College Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to receive and manage bequests, gifts, donations and contributions made to or for the use of iowa central community college.

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4
Northwest Iowa Community College Foundation

Providing scholarships and equipment to the students of northwest iowa community college.

Philanthropy
5
Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
6
Iowa City Golf Association

To promote interest, enthusiasm, and support for the game of golf in the greater iowa city/coralville area.

Recreation & Sports
7
Iowa Association for College Admission C

Education advancement

Education
8
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
9
Eastern Iowa Community College District Foundation

The eastern iowa community college district foundation builds awareness, friendships and financial support to further eastern iowa community college district's (eiccd) mission of delivering quality education and services to strengthen our…

Philanthropy
10
Iowa Rugby Collective Foundation
Recreation & Sports
11
Altoona Area Chamber of Commerce

The promotion of altoona, ia

Community Improvement
12
Iowa Rural Development Council

Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scott Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fort Madison Economic Development Corp. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $800,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF IOWA STEAD FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA STEAD FAMILY CHILDR…PARTNERING FOR THE FUTURE II: $50,000 · Other+6 more: $21,750 · OtherGREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS FACILITIES: $750,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER BURLINGTON ARE…FORT MADISON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 · Community ImprovementFORT MADISON ECONOMIC …MISSISSIPPI VALLEY VETERANS MEMORIAL INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBURLINGTON FINE ARTS LEAGUE: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $2,600 · Housing & ShelterALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthGARRETT M BROCKWAY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$1,851,000Other$1,421,750Community Improvement$810,000Arts & Culture$53,000Housing & Shelter$2,600Health$1,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON AREA SPORTS FACILITIES: $750,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetBURLINGTON FINE ARTS LEAGUE: $3,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $2,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARRETT M BROCKWAY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

John H Witte Jr Found…Harry & Virginia Murr…Amazonsmile Foundation
John H Witte Jr Foundation TrustWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust · Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation · 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 Winegard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winegard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Winegard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Winegard Foundation 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 19 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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