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Winston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Winston Family Initiative in Tech & Adolescent Brain Development Inc | $23,395,542 |
| Children and Nature Network | $870,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $600,000 |
| Episcopal School of Jacksonville Inc | $250,000 |
| The Nantucket Project Academy | $250,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $216,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $114,712 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $105,000 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $105,000 |
| Ravenscroft School | $100,000 |
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $75,000 |
| North Carolina Community Foundation Inc | $65,712 |
| Jacksonville Symphony Assoc | $50,000 |
| Friends of Johnston County Parks Inc | $50,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Winston Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- ESEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $730k · revenue +31%
RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $632k · revenue +31%- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $290k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hillone grant, 2021 · $2.6M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- UWUNC WINSTON FAMILY INITone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
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 sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To enhance the quality of life in the north florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert & Tracy Winston Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 137 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds ROBERT & TRACY WINSTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUND RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ORANGE RESCUE SQUAD 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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · VyStar Credit Union · The Haskell Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 · Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Schultz Foundation Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust
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 Winston Family Foundation 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.
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Leadership Jacksonville Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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