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Four Winds Community Foundation Inc at a glance

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Four Winds Community Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$16kEducation$15kHealth$13kArts & Culture$9kFood & Nutrition$7kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$536k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LORETTO DAY CARE$2,000
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,500
FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLA$1,500
KENTUCKY CLASSIC ARTS$1,500
MARION COUNTY VETERANS HONOR GUARD$1,500
COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER$1,500
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA$1,360
MARION COUNTY GOOD SAMARATINS FOUND$1,000
MARION CO ARTS AND HUMANITIES COU$1,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF MARION COUN$1,000
WORKING THE PUZZLE FOR AUTISM$1,000
RELAY FOR LIFE$1,000
MARION COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$750
UNITED CONCERNED CITIZENS ORGANIZAT$750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LORETTO CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $2k → 19%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 16 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$53k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

25%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k
  • MC
    MARION COUNTY VETERANS HONOR GUARD
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k
  • RF
    RELAY FOR LIFE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k

Funded once

  • LC
    LORETTO CHILD CARE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    AIR CONTROL KY 058
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • MC
    MARION COUNTY BAND BOOSTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $6,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INCRELAY FOR LIFE: $6,000 · OtherRELAY FOR LIFEWORKING THE PUZZLE FOR AUTISM INC: $4,500 · OtherWORKING THE PUZZLE FOR AUTISM INCST AUGUSTINE SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherST AUGUSTINE SCHOOLMARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,350 · OtherMARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYWREATHS ACROSS AMERICA: $2,584 · OtherMARION CO ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $2,000 · OtherMARION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $2,000 · OtherLORETTO DAY CARE: $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $1,850 · Other+21 more: $15,820 · Other+21 moreMARION COUNTY VETERANS HONOR GUARD: $6,500 · ReligionMARION COU…FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $4,480 · Food & NutritionMARION COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationMARION COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS FOUNDATION INC: $2,130 · HealthLORETTO CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$50,604Religion$6,500Food & Nutrition$4,480Education$4,000Health$2,130Human Services$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARION COUNTY VETERANS HONOR GUARD: $6,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $4,480 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARION COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetMARION COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS FOUNDATION INC: $2,130 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLORETTO CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE A CENTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds MARION COUNTY VETERANS HONOR GUARD ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MARION COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARION COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LORETTO CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARING PLACE A CENTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Four Winds Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Four Winds Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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