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Winsome Fund
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.
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 $10k17 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE | $50,000 |
| THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EASTHAM LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MASS-AUDUBON | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| FRANK FISCHER FUND OF LOYOLA | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| THE MOUNT HOLYOKE FUND | $2,500 |
| CAPE REP THEATER | $2,000 |
| LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +108%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +12%
- SRSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- RPROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +132%
- BCBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +25%
- PAPROVINCETOWN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Cape cod academy cultivates academic excellence and fosters a passion for life-long learning. our nurturing k-12 community is deeply rooted in our core values of scholarship, integrity, compassion, and respect. empowered by meaningful…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
Outer cape health services, inc.'s mission is to provide a full range of healthcare and supportive social services that promote the health and well-being of all who live in or visit the ten outermost towns of cape cod.
Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age
Cambridge comunity television ("cctv") is a nationally recognized community media center that is the voice and vision of all residents, businesses and organizations in the city of cambridge. cctv provides tools and training to foster free…
Long island housing partnership, inc. (lihp) was created to address the need for and to provide affordable housing opportunities on long island for those who are unable to afford homes, through development, technical assistance, mortgage…
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
Family promise of the lower cape fear supports families experiencing housing instability, including domestic violence survivors, to achieve sustainable independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Cod Children's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Eastham Public Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EASTHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL 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: Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Winsome Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Cape Cod Children's Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% 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.
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