Virginia · Nonprofit
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,364,548 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($255,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Winchester Rescue Mission does
Mission
The Winchester Rescue Mission provides high quality care to individuals devastated by the effects of poverty and homelessness by offering healing from the past, help for the present and hope for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Winchester Rescue Mission provides high quality care to individuals devastated by the effects of poverty and homelessness by offering healing from the past, help for the present and hope for the future. Men and women who find themselves in need of a safe and welcoming place to land can find it at Winchester Rescue Mission. As the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing and hygiene services are met, stress is removed, and healing can begin. When a person walks through the mission doors, they complete a comprehensive intake and are then connected with a case manage to develop individual, attainable and progressive goals to begin working towards the ultimate long-term goal of life transformation. Areas a guest may work on with their case manager include addiction, mental health, medical and physical issues, dental issues, life skills, income, housing, veteran's services, obtaining personal identification, and spiritual guidance. During financial year 2024/2025, the Winchester Rescue Mission provided 15,764 nights of shelter and 2252 hours of in person case management.
$579,493 spentof which $3,499 as grants44% of program spendingHunger can create instability and a seemingly endless cycle of brokenness and depression for individuals and families. Not everyone who joins us for meals is homeless. Recently our community has been greatly affected by food insecurity and many of our neighbors find themselves in need of meals and groceries that they cannot afford for a variety of reasons. Providing free groceries through our program known as cameron market, allows for those with minimal household finances to pay other critical bills and help to stabilize the home. During the 2024/2025 financial year 33,438 households received groceries through our cameron market initiative. Free prepared meals available through our caf on cameron initiative provided 72,622 hot meals to our community.
$732,730 spent56% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,312,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $4.8M (+75%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 14% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lauren Clouse
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $27k → $210k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 75% · 2019 19% · 2020 44% · 2021 70% · 2022 40% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $562k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $803k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION?
- WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,364,548 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($255,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,364,548 in grants to WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing