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Winokur Foundation at a glance

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Winokur 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.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of Winokur Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brandeis University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
2
’19
3
’20
0
’21
1
’22
1
’23
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Education$2.3MPhilanthropy$990kScience & Tech$27kArts & Culture$2kCrime & Legal$1kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$600,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$600,000
THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $600k → 8%JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $1k → 10%MURAL ARTS PHILADELPHIA: $2k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $300k → 16%THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $496k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $202k → 8%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2k → 22%POSSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $493k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%POSSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%WENDY HILLIARD GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%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.
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
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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
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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
6
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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7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandeis University; the most unlike its peers is Wendy Hilliard Foundation. 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

10 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $1,250,000 · EducationCornell UniversityBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $901,500 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $25,000 · EducationVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $989,503 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PRO…THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureWENDY HILLIARD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,000 · OtherTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$2,351,500Philanthropy$989,503Arts & Culture$3,500Recreation & Sports$1,000Other$1,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $989,503 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $901,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Winokur Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winokur Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Winokur Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Winokur 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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