· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Nantucket Project Academy | $250,000 |
| Episcopal School of Jacksonville Inc | $250,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $216,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $114,712 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $105,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $105,000 |
| Ravenscroft School | $100,000 |
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $75,000 |
| North Carolina Community Foundation Inc | $65,712 |
| Sound Rivers Inc | $50,000 |
| The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $50,000 |
| Friends of Johnston County Parks Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Winston Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 12 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 135 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Winston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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