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Create Tailwind Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$770k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$315kHealth$290kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kPhilanthropy$100kAnimals$78kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$115,000
OPERATION AIR DROP$110,000
MAUI UNITED WAY$100,000
NEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF KANSAS CITY$100,000
THE ROAD MAP INC$100,000
GROUND FORCE HUMANITARIAN AID$50,000
XMA INC$50,000
GRACE EXPLORATION$45,000
CROSSROADS CORRAL$40,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$30,000
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES$20,000
JOURNEY'S END ANIMAL SANCTUARY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAUI UNITED WAY: $100k → 9%NAUGLE FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%THE BRAIN & BEHAVORIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $175k → 17%OPERATION AIR DROP: $110k → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $115k → 14%CROSSROADS CORRAL: $40k → 11%ASA SERVICE DOGS INC: $38k → 13%THE ROAD MAP INC: $100k → 11%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%NEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF KANSAS CITY: $100k → 15%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30k → 6%GROUND FORCE HUMANITARIAN AID: $50k → 17%XMA INC: $50k → 21%JOURNEY'S END ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MO
VA
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
3
Leap of Faith Rescue Ranch Foundati
Animals
4
Drage Second Chance Ranch
Animals
5
Believe Ranch and Rescue
Animals
6
A Better Chance International Rescue
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7
Blue Horse Sanctuary
Animals
8
Homebound Farm & Rescue
Animals
9
Fighting Chance Ranch & Rescue
Animals
10
Leashes End Inc
Animals
11
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
12
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way; the most unlike its peers is Naugle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRAIN & BEHAVORIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $174,500 · OtherTHE BRAIN & BEHAVORIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $110,000 · OtherOPERATION AIRDROP INCNEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF KANSAS CITY INC: $100,000 · OtherNEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF KANSAS CITY INCXMA INC: $50,000 · OtherXMA INCGROUND FORCE HUMANITARIAN AID: $50,000 · OtherGROUND FORCE HUMANITARIAN AIDJOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · OtherNaugle Foundation: $20,000 · OtherTHE ROAD MAP INC: $100,000 · ReligionTHE ROAD MAP INCGrace Explorations: $45,000 · ReligionGrace Exploratio…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $115,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …MAUI UNITED WAY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED…ASA Service Dogs Inc: $37,600 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30,000 · AnimalsJourneys End Animal Sanctuary Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsCROSSROADS CORRAL INC: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$524,500Religion$145,000Health$115,000Philanthropy$100,000Animals$77,600Youth Development$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $115,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $110,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROAD MAP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGrace Explorations: $45,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetCROSSROADS CORRAL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetASA Service Dogs Inc: $37,600 over 1y, 26% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaugle Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetJourneys End Animal Sanctuary Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Create Tailwind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Create Tailwind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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