· Private foundation
Wintman Family Charitable Trust A
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWTON COMMUNITY FARM | $5,000 |
| ACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY | $5,000 |
| WGBH | $4,000 |
| NE WILDLIFE CENTER | $4,000 |
| WBUR | $4,000 |
| STRAY PETS IN NEED | $3,500 |
| BROKEN TAILS RESCUE | $3,000 |
| BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| A PLACE TO TURN- FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| LIFE IS LOVE VETERINARY CLINIC | $3,000 |
| MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER ALLEY CATS | $3,000 |
| BAY PATH HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION | $3,000 |
| UNICEF | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- NCNEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +27%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +32%- CRCHARLES RIVER ALLEYCATS INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +32%
Funded once
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +63%- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAIFAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- JJCRCone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Quincy animal shelter is dedicated to finding and placing every animal in a safe, loving home with a caring family. the shelter is committed to the humane adn ethical treatement of all animals in its care.
To provide objective and impartial research and policy analysis in order to promote more efficient, effective and responsible government for the city of boston.
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
Since 1899, the boston rescue mission has provided a safe, healing community for people at risk of homelessness and substance use disorders. brm is committed to transforming and empowering women and men at risk to end their homelessness…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Newton Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 111 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 NEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ALLEYCATS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hilltop Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROKEN TAIL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Bulldogs Running Club ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Area Urban League ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Vhf Foundation Inc · Three Squares New England Inc
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 Wintman Family Charitable Trust A 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.
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.