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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…

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$3.3MEducation$705kRecreation & Sports$423kArts & Culture$415kYouth Development$307kHealth$238kPublic Safety & Disaster$181kReligion$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 70 grants below total $3,696,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,076,331 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $380,330 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $839k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $674k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$13,324
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEMCAC: $35k → 8%SON MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%SEMCAC: $25k → 8%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $7k → 13%SON MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $2.0M → 14%BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION: $128k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $67k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $54k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $49k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $47k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MN: $45k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $32k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $31k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $28k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $19k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $11k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WINONA: $8k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
TN
NC
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 36 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
29

Total granted

$4.8M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $897k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • WV
    WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +74%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +55%
  • ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CC
    COCHRANE-FOUNTAIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2018–2022 · $75k
  • RA
    RECREATION ALLIANCE OF WINONA
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • T1
    THE 100 MILE CLUB INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -5%
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
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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2
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…

Philanthropy
3
Winona Education Association

Negotiate teacher contract, represent and promote teacher rights and promote leadership roles

Employment
4
Winona Senior Services Inc

To inspire, recognize, and empower the caregivers in all of us.

Health
5
Winnetka Public School Nursery

Preschool serving children ages 2 to 6

Education
6
Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc

To provide advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.

Health
7
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
8
Westconsin Credit Union

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…

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9
Minnesota Waldorf School

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.

Education
10
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
11
The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College

Wittenberg university provides a liberal arts education dedicated to intellectual inquiry and wholeness of person within a diverse residential community. reflecting its lutheran heritage, wittenberg challenges students to become…

Education
12
Friends School of Minnesota

To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Villages of Indiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/101
Grantees still filing
66/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $2,112,808 · Human ServicesWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER: $264,968 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROC…SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $128,200 · Human Services+6 more: $155,997 · Human Services+6 moreWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $759,751 · OtherWINONA FAMILY YMCA INCCITY OF WINONA: $333,785 · OtherCITY OF WINONAHIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $126,900 · Other+65 more: $1,220,376 · Other+65 moreST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $167,431 · EducationST MARYS …WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $157,933 · EducationWINONA AR…MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationMINNESOTA…Marquette University: $40,000 · EducationMarquette…WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,300 · EducationWINONA ST…BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $22,983 · EducationRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $27,864 · EducationGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $103,495 · Arts & CultureSANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $70,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM: $35,100 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL: $29,300 · Arts & CultureWINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,802 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC: $57,045 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $30,105 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Knoxville: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMPACT CENTER: $21,200 · Youth DevelopmentGO FAR Inc: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentGale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc: $33,407 · Recreation & SportsTHE 100 MILE CLUB INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsGOODVIEW WINONA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $13,324 · Recreation & SportsHOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $64,327 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,661,973Other$2,440,812Education$531,511Arts & Culture$359,697Youth Development$150,350Recreation & Sports$76,731Housing & Shelter$64,327

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $2,112,808 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $759,751 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER: $264,968 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $167,431 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $157,933 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $128,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $126,900 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $103,495 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SERVING WINONA COUNTY: $80,790 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL: $75,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $67,184 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $64,327 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSEMCAC: $59,313 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE ANGELS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC: $57,045 over 2y, 20% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER OF WINONA: $55,591 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetBLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES: $54,087 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetMarquette University: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - CAMP OLSON: $35,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM: $35,100 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Athletic Booster Club Inc: $33,407 over 3y, 41% of budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS: $31,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $30,105 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE 100 MILE CLUB INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC: $29,686 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL: $29,300 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWinona Health Foundation: $29,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOMETOWN RESOURCE CENTER: $26,986 over 4y, 16% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Knoxville: $25,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetBLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $22,983 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,802 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODVIEW WINONA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $13,324 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRIDGEWAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $12,864 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGO FAR Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $10,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEURO FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT FINE: $8,495 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL: $8,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMID WEST MUSIC FEST: $7,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWINONA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $7,090 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Slaggie Family Founda…Elizabeth Callender K…Winona Foundation TheOtto Bremer TrustThe Gostomski Foundat…Celanese FoundationDare Lamberton White …Southeastern Minnesot…Rochester Area Founda…Southern Minnesota In…United Way of Southea…Saint Paul & Minnesot…
Slaggie Family FoundationMN66.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 107 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 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home