How much does Winona Foundation The give?

Winona Foundation The reported 15 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Winona Foundation The fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Philanthropy (11%), Civil Rights (6%).

Who are Winona Foundation The's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Marine Art Museum ($58k), Winona Arts Center ($57k), Winona-Dakota Unity Alliance ($47k).

Does Winona Foundation The fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Winona Foundation The accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Winona Foundation The?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth Callender King Foundation, Winona Community Foundation, Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc.

Where is Winona Foundation The based?

Winona Foundation The is based in WA.

Winona Foundation The

Winona Foundation The at a glance

· Private foundation

Winona Foundation The

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$379kPhilanthropy$83kCivil Rights$47kEducation$45kReligion$37kCommunity Improvement$22kRecreation & Sports$18kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $59k
$10k–50k3 grants · $32k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE	$7,500
MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM	$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
FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL	$2,500
SANDBAR STORYTELLING FESTIVAL	$2,500
MID WEST MUSIC FEST	$2,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$618k · 20 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$618k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

Still filing today

60%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

MM
MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM
9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +130%
PM
Pickwick Mill Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +22%
PC
POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
6× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +23%

Funded once

RL
REDEEMER LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $5k
FO
FRIENDS OF WINONA PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2023 · $5k
AO
ART OF THE RURALOUTPOST
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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Museum of Lake Minnetonka

Historic steamboat rides and eduction about Lake Minnetonka.

Arts & Culture

Willmar Community Theatre Inc

The theatre's mission is to provide affordable, quality performing arts to west central minnesota.

Arts & Culture

Twin Cities Polish Festival

Educational

—

Waterfront Festival

Increase awareness of the fine arts through films

Arts & Culture

Winona County Historical Society

To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.

Arts & Culture

Willmar Area Arts Council

To promote and support the arts in willmar and surrounding communities through coordination, communication and collaboration and promotion.

Arts & Culture

Twin Rivers Council for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Canoe Museum

operation of museum exhibit hall and maintenance of collections

Arts & Culture

Winnebago Area Museum

The museum's purpose is to provide museum items and historical information about the area to the general public.

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Minnesota Museum of Mining

To preserve the history and growth of the iron ore industry of the state of minnesota

—

Meadowlark Arts Council Inc

Support of the arts

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/21

Grantees still filing

11/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$279,511Other$279,185Philanthropy$72,500Education$67,100Community Improvement$22,300Environment$17,500

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

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.

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.

Elizabeth Callender King FoundationMN37× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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