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Winslow Family 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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$118kHealth$74kYouth Development$66kFood & Nutrition$51kPhilanthropy$26kHousing & Shelter$11kReligion$10kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,588
Median grant
3
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Chicago$15,000
National Louis University$7,500
Planned Parenthood of IL$7,500
The Hunger Coalition$2,588
America Needs You$2,500
Connections for The Homeless$1,000
Positive tracks$750
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Spur Community Foundation: $10k → 7%Urban Initiatives: $18k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $15k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $10k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $10k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $8k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $5k → 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

ME
VT
NH
ID
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$336k · 16 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$336k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

56%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +56%
  • UI
    URBAN INITIATIVES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +125%
  • TJ
    THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • E
    Eventsorg
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
9
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
10
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
11
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
12
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nami-Wood River Valley 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

26 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. 26 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALDEA: $35,000 · OtherALDEAPlanned Parenthood of IL: $32,295 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of ILNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $27,140 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLColby Fund: $12,500 · OtherColby FundThe Hunger Coalition: $10,170 · OtherThe Hunger CoalitionPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,900 · Other+24 more: $35,635 · Other+24 moreUniversity of Chicago: $74,600 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoNational Louis University: $12,750 · EducationNational Louis University+3 more: $3,875 · EducationURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $65,200 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INCSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $29,250 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $11,210 · Housing & ShelterREFUGEEONE: $10,000 · ReligionTHE CLEAR FUND: $7,000 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $750 · Philanthropy
Other$158,640Education$91,225Human Services$76,200Health$29,750Housing & Shelter$11,210Religion$10,000Philanthropy$7,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $74,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $65,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $29,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $27,140 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Louis University: $12,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $11,210 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcHenry County Conservation Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSELF HELP AFRICA INC: $1,074 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $100 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Winslow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winslow Family 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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 · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Winslow Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Winslow Family 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 44 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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