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Winley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k18 grants · $358k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $450,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE | $450,000 |
| SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK | $120,000 |
| HEART | $90,000 |
| OKLAHOMA PRIMATE SANCTUARY | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WASHOE | $38,000 |
| GLOBAL FED OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES | $35,000 |
| EQUINE RESCUE | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC | $25,000 |
| WILD BIRD FUND | $25,000 |
| CHIMP HAVEN INC | $20,000 |
| UNEXPECTED WILDLIFE RESCUE INC | $20,000 |
| LOLLYPOP FARM | $15,000 |
| LUCKY ORPHANS HORSE RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
| HOPE ACRES RESCUE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AWANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +40%
- SSSPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $778k · revenue +272% · 76% of their budget
- OPOklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $279k · revenue +418%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $300k
- EAELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $50k
- HFHumane Farm Animal Caregraduatedone grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +141%
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.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Washoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Washoe ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES ↗
- Who funds UNEXPECTED WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACRES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Farm Animal Care ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
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: The Summerlee Foundation · Dj and T Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc · Animal Welfare Institute · Vegfund Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Winley Foundation 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.
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.
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