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Winona Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life in the winona area by educating the public about the practice of philanthropy and its benefits both to donors and to the community, connecting people with charitable intent and resources with organizations and causes that can advance the public good, gathering, preserving, and stewarding philanthropic…
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.
The 70 grants below total $3,696,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,076,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $380,330 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $839k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $674k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES | $2,029,222 |
| CITY OF WINONA | $148,785 |
| BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION | $128,200 |
| HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $126,900 |
| SANDBAR STORYTELLING FESTIVAL | $75,000 |
| MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL | $70,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER | $67,184 |
| SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $58,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $49,100 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA | $46,535 |
| HOME & COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC | $39,400 |
| ADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA | $37,493 |
| SEMCAC | $34,533 |
| WINONA FAMILY YMCA | $33,265 |
| COTTER SCHOOLS | $31,350 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 38 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $897k 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
- WVWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +48%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +55%
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CCCOCHRANE-FOUNTAIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2018–2022 · $75k
- RARECREATION ALLIANCE OF WINONAone grant, 2019 · $65k
- T1THE 100 MILE CLUB INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -5%
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.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Winona Area Ambulance Service provides advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the Community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.
Preschool serving children ages 2 to 6
Negotiate teacher contract, represent and promote teacher rights and promote leadership roles
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
To inspire, recognize, and empower the caregivers in all of us.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Minnesota waldorf school nurtures children's highest capacities of thinking, feeling and willing by cultivating a sense of truth, the power of imagination, and a feeling of responsibility for themselves and the world around them.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Volunteer Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jerry Lee Jarrett Life Center 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 107 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 WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANNE OF WINONA ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SERVING WINONA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA ↗
- Who funds BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - CAMP OLSON ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds COTTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc ↗
- Who funds THE 100 MILE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Winona Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: Slaggie Family Foundation · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation · Winona Foundation The · Otto Bremer Trust · The Gostomski Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Rochester Area Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · United Way of Southeast Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
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 Winona Community Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.