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Harry Winslow Foundation

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-6184815. Reported 49 grants totalling $183,960 to 24 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$183,960granted, 2021-2025
24recipients, as named on its returns
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$846,506assets, 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. Harry Winslow Foundation 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,244 and $5,465; the smallest was $450 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Crawford County CoalitionMeadville, PA$25,286552025
St James Haven IncMeadville, PA$22,084442025
Seton Catholic SchoolMeadville, PA$21,275552025
Meadville Area Free ClinicMeadville, PA$20,045332023
Child Development Centers IncErie, PA$16,000552025
Meadville Area Recreation FoundationMeadville, PA$15,575222025
Learning Center K-8 SchoolMeadville, PA$12,637442025
Meadville YMCAMeadville, PA$7,630222024
Meadville Community TheatreMeadville, PA$7,000112025
French Creek Recreational TrailsMeadville, PA$6,150222025
Creating Landscapes Learning Center IncMeadville, PA$6,113222025
Stone Um ChurchMeadville, PA$6,015112023
Meadville Martin Luther King JR Scholarship FundMeadville, PA$5,450222023
Crawford Christian AcademyMeadville, PA$3,000112025
Junior Achievement of Western PaErie, PA$2,000112021
Meadville Neighborhood CenterMeadville, PA$1,700112021
Women's Services IncMeadville, PA$1,500112021
FOOD4THOUGHTMeadville, PA$1,000112025
Girl Scouts of Western PaMeadville, PA$1,000112025
Active Aging FdnMeadville, PA$500112021
Community Health Services IncMeadville, PA$500112021
Meadville Garden Club Trees of ChristmasMeadville, PA$500112024
Salvation ArmyMeadville, PA$500112021
The Men of Grace Allegheny RegionSaegertown, PA$500112021

11 of 24 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 62%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
9 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Environment
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$40,387$1,630
20226$41,130$6,831
20238$33,944$4,200
20248$32,555$3,650
202512$35,944$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

Meadville, PA
$165K
Erie, PA
$18K
Saegertown, PA
$500

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Crawford Heritage Community Foundation5 shared recipientsCentral Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund4 shared recipientsNorthwest Institute of Research4 shared recipientsC F Holdship Charitable Trust2 shared recipientsErie Community Foundation2 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  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 Harry Winslow Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 500 First Ave P7-Pfsc-03-Z, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. 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 25-6184815 · 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.

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