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Wynnstay 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$21kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$3kInternational$2kArts & Culture$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCrime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,970
Median grant
1
States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$13,970
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHELTERBOX: $1k → 14%INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $600 → 7%INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $600 → 7%GET INCLUDED: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15k · 9 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$15k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +106%
  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • B
    BREASTCANCERORGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +158%
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +0%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
2
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
5
Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services
6
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
7
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
8
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
10
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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11
Citizens Inn Inc

The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)

Housing & Shelter
12
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Montco Pa; the most unlike its peers is Sustained Acts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS: $13,970 · OtherVARIOUSALDERSGATE: $2,500 · OtherALDERSGATELIVE LIFE LIKE LOIS: $2,250 · OtherLIVE LIFE LIKE LOISIndividual grant recipient: $1,250 · OtherNORTHERN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · OtherARCHDREAM: $1,000 · Other+10 more: $4,458 · Other+10 moreCOVENANT HOUSE INC: $2,500 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE…BREASTCANCERORG: $1,500 · HealthBREASTCANCEROR…The MIP Foundation: $750 · HealthThe MIP Founda…DEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthDEAR JACK FOUN…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $300 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN…SHELTERBOX USA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX U…FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $1,200 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMI…Operation Warm Inc: $750 · Human ServicesOperation Wa…LAUREL HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSEGETINCLUDED INC: $500 · Human ServicesGETINCLUDED …Philabundance: $1,250 · Food & NutritionHAT PACKS: $500 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $500 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINED ACTS INC: $1,200 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalFAMILY PROMISE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$26,428Health$5,550Human Services$4,950Food & Nutrition$2,250International$2,200Housing & Shelter$2,000Crime & Legal$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINED ACTS INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe MIP Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAT PACKS: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETINCLUDED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOW CHARITIES: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Cigna Group Found…The Philadelphia Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cigna Group FoundationPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cigna Group Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wynnstay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wynnstay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Wynnstay Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wynnstay Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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