· Private foundation
Wingate 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $394k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IECF | $250,000 |
| MALOOF FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CRAFT IN AMERICA | $194,000 |
| RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM | $33,600 |
| INLANDIA | $25,000 |
| PLAN-IT LIFE INC | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $18,293 |
| THE SEA RANCH THESPIANS | $11,000 |
| ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HUMAN MIGRATION INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| PROJECT SANTA | $1,000 |
| GUALALA ARTS CENTER | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $597k · revenue +281% · 26% of their budget
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +37%
- PLPLAN-IT LIFE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE AND SBone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MMMINT MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue +63%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
Verge Center for the Arts provides contemporary art and art resources to the Sacramento region through a combination of exhibitions, low or no cost artist workspace, and educational programming.Located in Sacramento's Southside Park…
Education
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRAFT IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAN-IT LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds The Sea Ranch Thespians ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Rivers & Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Riverside Arts Council ↗
- Who funds Riverside Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Human Migration Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARADA HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATINO NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wingate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wingate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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