How much does Winley Foundation give?

Winley Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,468,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Winley Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (94%), Environment (6%).

Who are Winley Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Animal Welfare Institute ($4.1M), Humane World for Animals Inc ($900k), Species Survival Network ($778k).

Does Winley Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Winley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Winley Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Summerlee Foundation, Dj and T Foundation, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Where is Winley Foundation based?

Winley Foundation is based in NY.

Winley Foundation

Winley Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Winley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$450k

Largest

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.

Animals$12MEnvironment$778k

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k18 grants · $358k
$50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$250k+2 grants · $900k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE	$450,000
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS	$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
WILD BIRD FUND	$25,000
ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC	$25,000
UNEXPECTED WILDLIFE RESCUE INC	$20,000
CHIMP HAVEN INC	$20,000
LOLLYPOP FARM	$15,000
HOPE ACRES RESCUE	$15,000
LUCKY ORPHANS HORSE RESCUE INC	$15,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 26 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+141%

Still filing today

85%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

AW
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +40%
SS
SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK
9× · 2017–2025 · $778k · revenue +272% · 76% of their budget
OP
Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $279k · revenue +418%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $300k
EA
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2017 · $50k
HF
Humane Farm Animal Caregraduated
one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +141%

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.

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary

Animals

Howlmore Animal Sanctuary Inc

Philanthropy

Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu

Animals

Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary

Animals

Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc

Animals

Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

Animals

2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals

Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue

Animals

Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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Spring Farm Sanctuary

Animals

Karma Farm Sanctuary Inc

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 32 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

16/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$7,774,410Other$4,515,330Environment$857,670

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.

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.

The Summerlee FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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 · 0–90%

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

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How do I get to Winley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Winley 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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