FundersRhode Island

Winstead Charitable Foundation Tr

Westerly, RI · EIN 30-0273736. Reported 74 grants totalling $380,500 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$380,500granted, 2021-2023
30organizations funded
90%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,274,601assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Winstead Charitable Foundation Tr did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $6,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $19,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
35 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
28 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jewish Collaborative Services- Jewish Family ServiceProvidence, RI$36,000332023
Rhode Island Jewish Historical SocietyProvidence, RI$36,000222023
Temple Beth-El Attn Tonya Glantz PresidentProvidence, RI$24,000222022
Hasbro Children's HospitalProvidence, RI$22,500332023
Women & Infants Development FoundationProvidence, RI$22,500332023
Miriam HospitalProvidence, RI$20,000222022
Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education CenterProvidence, RI$18,000332023
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VA$15,000332023
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI$15,000332023
Classical High School Alumni Association - ChsaaProvidence, RI$15,000332023
GreenlockRehoboth, MA$15,000332023
Harvard University HillelCambridge, MA$15,000332023
Partners in HealthBoston, MA$12,500332023
Rhode Island Jewish Historical AssociationProvidence, RI$12,000112021
Temple Beth-ElProvidence, RI$12,000112023
Bradley HospitalRiverside, RI$11,000332023
Community Preparatory SchoolProvidence, RI$10,000332023
Alzheimer's Association Rhode Island ChapterProvidence, RI$7,500332023
American Cancer Society Inc Attn Michael SaenzOklahoma City, OK$7,500332023
American Heart Association Attn Liz DosoretzSt Petersburg, FL$7,500332023
Brandeis University HillelWaltham, MA$7,500332023
New Israel FundNewtonville, MA$7,500332023
AlltogethernowEast Montpelier, VT$6,000222022
Kingston Chamber Music FestivalKingston, RI$6,000332023
Hamilton HouseProvidence, RI$5,000112021
Save the BayWesterly, RI$4,500332023
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$3,000332023
Our Sisters' School IncNew Bedford, MA$2,500112023
Sophia AcademyProvidence, RI$2,500112023
The Nature ConservancyArlington, VA$2,000112023

24 of 30 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 90%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Arts & Culture
8 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Environment
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Religion
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$127,500$5,000
202224$126,500$5,000
202325$126,500$3,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 73% of this one's giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Rhode Island
$280K
Massachusetts
$60K
Virginia
$17K
Oklahoma
$8K
Florida
$8K
Vermont
$6K
New York
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Rhode Island Community Foundation11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsUnited Way of Rhode Island Inc6 shared recipientsJune Rockwell Levy Foundation4 shared recipientsCvs Health Charity Classic Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Rhode Island.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Winstead Charitable Foundation Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 23 Broad Street, Westerly, RI, 02891. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 30-0273736 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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