· Private foundation
Winona Foundation The
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $12,000 |
| POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WINONA AREA PUBLIC SC | $10,000 |
| THEATRE DU MISSISSIPPI | $8,000 |
| MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| WINONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| PROJECT FINE | $5,000 |
| WINONA ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| WINONA DAKOTA UNITY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| PICKWICK MILL | $4,000 |
| SANDBAR STORYTELLING FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| MID WEST MUSIC FEST | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MMMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +130%
- PMPickwick Mill Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +22%
- PCPOLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- RLREDEEMER LUTHERAN PRESCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF WINONA PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AOART OF THE RURALOUTPOSTone grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Historic steamboat rides and eduction about Lake Minnetonka.
The theatre's mission is to provide affordable, quality performing arts to west central minnesota.
Educational
Increase awareness of the fine arts through films
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
To promote and support the arts in willmar and surrounding communities through coordination, communication and collaboration and promotion.
Advocating and promoting arts and culture as it relates to community and economic development, educating local artists/groups, and connecting the community to more arts and culture opportunities.
operation of museum exhibit hall and maintenance of collections
The museum's purpose is to provide museum items and historical information about the area to the general public.
To preserve the history and growth of the iron ore industry of the state of minnesota
Support of the arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Minnesota Streetcar Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINONA-DAKOTA UNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Theatre du Mississippi ↗
- Who funds Pickwick Mill Inc ↗
- Who funds POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Winona Civic Music Inc ↗
- Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo County Land & Trails Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Engage Winona ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FINE ↗
- Who funds MID WEST MUSIC FEST ↗
- Who funds CSTEA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STREETCAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC ↗
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: Elizabeth Callender King Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Slaggie Family Foundation · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · The Gostomski Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Celanese Foundation · United Way of Southeast Minnesota · Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Foundation The 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.
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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