How much does Winney Foundation give?

Winney Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $61,864 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Winney Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Education (33%), Health (8%).

Who are Winney Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westminster College ($136k), St Johns Healing Community Board ($27k), Millikin University ($27k).

Does Winney Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Winney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Winney Foundation based?

Winney Foundation is based in TN.

Winney Foundation

Winney Foundation at a glance

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Winney Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Winney Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, Edward Jones 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.

$62k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$244kEducation$179kHealth$44kHuman Services$41kArts & Culture$15kInternational$5kFood & Nutrition$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $7k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$899k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$55,000
SAMARTIANS PURSE	$3,000
SENIOR CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS	$1,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$1,000
ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY CARE	$300
CHILD FUND INTERNATIONAL	$264
HARRISBURG BROTHERS IN CHRIST	$200
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$100

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.

$529k · 37 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$529k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%

+3%

Still filing today

41%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

WC
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +5%
SJ
ST JOHNS HEALING COMMUNITY BOARD
9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +5%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +145%

Funded once

TB
THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +68%
TC
THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +21%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -3%

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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education

Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education

Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elmington Elevates Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

37 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. 37 of the 75 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)

37/37

Grantees still filing

22/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$334,769Education$173,600Health$19,350Arts & Culture$10,750Human Services$3,900Religion$3,400International$1,899

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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The camps

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By state

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