· Private foundation
Winning Home Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| James L Mckeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn | $100,000 |
| Woburn Council of Social Concern | $95,000 |
| Raw Art Works | $25,000 |
| The Open Door | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| The Children's Room | $20,000 |
| Gaining Ground Inc | $15,000 |
| Mission of Deeds | $10,000 |
| Connor's Kindness Project | $7,500 |
| Strongwater Farm | $7,500 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston | $7,500 |
| Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Camping Association | $7,500 |
| St vincent De Paul Society | $5,000 |
| Reach beyond Domestic Violence | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- WCWoburn Council of Social Concern Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +85%
- JLJAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $717k · revenue +97%
RAW ART WORKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +63%
- WPWOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -15%
- SHSEVEN HILLS PEDIATRIC CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is James L Mckeown Boys and Girls Club of Woburn 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 41 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 Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds Woburn Community Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SAVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNOR'S KINDNESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · DCU for Kids · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · The Frederick E Weber Charities Corp
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 Winning Home Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Social Capital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 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.
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