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Winning Home Inc

Concord, MA · EIN 04-6049776. Reported 77 grants totalling $1,487,333 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,487,333granted, 2021-2024
30recipients, as named on its returns
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,402,408assets, 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. Winning Home Inc 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $110,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
36 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

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
Woburn Council of Social ConcernWoburn, MA$395,000442024
James L Mckeown Boys & Girls Club of WoburnWoburn, MA$383,333442024
The Open DoorGloucester, MA$100,000442024
Raw Art WorksLynn, MA$90,000442024
Gaining Ground IncConcord, MA$49,000442024
The Childrens RoomArlington, MA$45,000332023
Pathways for ChildrenGloucester, MA$40,000332023
Woburn Community Education FoundationWoburn, MA$40,000222023
Woburn Community EducationWoburn, MA$35,000222024
Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding ProgramLincoln, MA$27,500442024
Reach Beyond Domestic ViolenceWaltham, MA$25,000332024
Strongwater FarmTewksbury, MA$22,500442024
Mission of DeedsReading, MA$20,000332024
The Wish ProjectNorth Chelmsford, MA$20,000442024
The Children's RoomArlington, MA$20,000112024
Wildflower IncWellesley, MA$20,000442024
Connor's Kindness ProjectLynnfield, MA$17,500332024
Jewish Community Center of Greater BostonNewton, MA$17,500222024
St Charles SchoolWoburn, MA$16,000222023
Lazarus House MinistriesLawrence, MA$15,000112021
Raising a ReaderBoston, MA$15,000332024
Social CapitalWoburn, MA$15,000332024
St Vincent De Paul SocietyLawrence, MA$15,000332024
Our Neighbors' TableAmesbury, MA$10,000112021
UtecLowell, MA$10,000112021
Cambridge Camping AssociationCambridge, MA$7,500112024
Community Harvest ProjectN Grafton, MA$5,000112021
Community RowingBrighton, MA$5,000112021
Haven ProjectLynn, MA$5,000112021
Woburn Lions ClubWoburn, MA$1,500112024

21 of 30 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 79%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 40 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.

Human Services
19 grants
Education
7 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$396,333$10,500
202218$362,000$7,500
202319$350,000$10,000
202420$379,000$7,500

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

Woburn, MA
$886K
Gloucester, MA
$140K
Lynn, MA
$95K
Arlington, MA
$65K
Concord, MA
$49K
Lawrence, MA
$30K
Lincoln, MA
$28K
Waltham, MA
$25K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc20 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation19 shared recipientsCummings Foundation Grants Inc (fka Oneworld Boston Inc)18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsBoston Foundation Inc13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. 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 Massachusetts.
  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 Winning Home Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 1150 Main Street Suite 1, Concord, MA, 01742. 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 04-6049776 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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