· Private foundation
Winkler Nina Astin Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $16,500 |
| TWIN CITY MISSION | $16,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $8,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| BRYAN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $8,000 |
| BRYAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| BOYS CLUBS OF BRAZOS COUNTY INC | $8,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE BRAZOS VALLE | $8,000 |
| BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK | $8,000 |
| STILL CREEK BOYS RANCH INC | $8,000 |
| ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER | $8,000 |
| YOUTH INC | $8,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +39%
- TCTwin City Mission9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +35%
- BIBryan ISD Education Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TRThe Reach Projectgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +91%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRone grant, 2024 · $10k
- OIOnRamp Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To promote the advancement of the optimal physical, mental, emotional, and social development of children who are blind and visually impaired.
To build a memorial and educational venue that will honor all veterans of the Brazos Valley.
Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.
To provide financial support for the charitable programs and activities of Voices for Children, Inc. a nonprofit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides advocacy services to children in the child welfare system due to abuse and/or neglect.
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is S O S Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds Bryan ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys Club of Brazos County Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Brazos County Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic ↗
- Who funds Scottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Unity Partners ↗
- Who funds Still Creek Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds The Reach Project ↗
- Who funds OnRamp Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY LUNCHBOX ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Winkler Nina Astin Trust 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.
- Friends of Chamber Music — 1% of income from government
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.