· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MASS-AUDUBON | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| FRANK FISCHER FUND OF LOYOLA | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| THE MOUNT HOLYOKE FUND | $2,500 |
| CENTER STAGE | $2,000 |
| WCAI | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Winsome Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winsome Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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