FundersPennsylvania

Harry Winslow Foundation

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-6184815. Reported 37 grants totalling $148,016 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$148,016granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$780,046assets, 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 $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $6,000; 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
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

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
Crawford County CoalitionMeadville, PA$22,286442024
Meadville Area Free ClinicMeadville, PA$20,045332023
St James Haven IncMeadville, PA$19,084332024
Seton Catholic SchoolMeadville, PA$18,575442024
Child Development Centers IncErie, PA$13,000442024
Learning Center K-8 SchoolMeadville, PA$11,393332024
Meadville Area Recreation FoundationMeadville, PA$8,575112024
Meadville YMCAMeadville, PA$7,630222024
Stone Um ChurchMeadville, PA$6,015112023
Meadville Martin Luther King JR Scholarship FundMeadville, PA$5,450222023
French Creek Recreational TrailsMeadville, PA$5,150112021
Creating Landscapes Learning Center IncMeadville, PA$3,113112023
Junior Achievement of Western PaErie, PA$2,000112021
Meadville Neighborhood CenterMeadville, PA$1,700112021
Women's Services IncMeadville, PA$1,500112021
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

8 of 20 (40%) 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 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
6 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Environment
1 grant
Religion
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

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
$133K
Erie, PA
$15K
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 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.

Crawford Heritage Community Foundation5 shared recipientsNorthwest Institute of Research4 shared recipientsCentral Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund3 shared recipientsC F Holdship Charitable Trust2 shared recipientsErie Community Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. 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 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 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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, 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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