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Winn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$526k
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 2024.

Education$12MInternational$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.8MScience & Tech$1.6MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$736kFood & Nutrition$600kHuman Services$583kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $525k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERISITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$525,988
NEST INC$311,187
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER$250,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY$250,000
AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC AKA URBAN ROOTS$100,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB$100,000
COMMIT2DALLAS$100,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$75,000
TAKING CARE OF TEXAS$50,000
THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$50,000
RED ARENA INC$50,000
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC$25,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$4,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $150k → 15%KIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $80k → 15%KIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $55k → 15%KIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 15%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $25k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $25k → 14%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $50k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $24k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DALLAS FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $25k → 14%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $20k → 10%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $20k → 10%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INCORPORATED: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Winn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Winn Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 23 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
26

Total granted

$19M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+20%

Still filing today

78%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NI
    NEST INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +309%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $648k · revenue +1%
  • KIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $335k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • JP
    JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +74%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue -28%
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
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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6
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

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7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.

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12
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Great Investors Best Ideas Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $9,192,742 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $647,725 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC+4 more: $562,275 · Education+4 moreTHE UNIVERISITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $1,584,459 · OtherTHE UNIVERISITY OF TEXAS AT…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $1,350,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXASHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $504,310 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHOD…AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC AKA URBAN ROOTS: $200,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $200,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND+25 more: $1,464,500 · Other+25 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHI…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $675,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY F…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER …UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $102,500 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNEST INC: $2,292,374 · InternationalNEST INC+2 more: $60,000 · InternationalJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $500,000 · Human ServicesKIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $335,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $114,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesCYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $800,000 · HealthRED ARENA INC: $50,000 · HealthARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $250,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$10,402,742Other$5,603,269Philanthropy$2,577,500International$2,352,374Human Services$1,039,000Health$850,000Arts & Culture$531,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $9,192,742 over 5y, 16% of budgetNEST INC: $2,292,374 over 7y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $675,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $647,725 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKIDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $335,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $262,275 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMomentous Institute: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $114,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $102,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $72,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $54,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaking Care of Texas: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRED ARENA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRefuSHE Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCircle of Health International: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Moody FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…Austin Community Foun…The Cynthia & George …The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Communities Foundatio…Tingari FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …St David's FoundationBetter Business BureauPatagoniaorg
The Moody FoundationTX19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Moody Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Tingari Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Patagoniaorg

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Winn Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Winn Family 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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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