Florida · Private foundation
Gulf Winds Cares 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.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,849
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $156k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $162k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $123k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $163k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $131k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pensacola Habitat for Humanity Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Council on Aging of West Florida Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation Inc | $54,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Northwest Florida | $34,000 | 3 | 11% |
| University of West Florida Foundation Inc | $30,500 | 5 | 0% |
| America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Elder Care Services Inc | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Banzai Inc | $20,783 | 3 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($289k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gulf Winds Credit Union · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Dw McMillan Foundation · Landrum Family Foundation Inc · The Bear Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Sansing Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · The St Joe Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc
- How much does Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc give?
- Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $156,349 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Education (21%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Pensacola Habitat for Humanity Inc ($70k), Council on Aging of West Florida Inc ($55k), Sacred Heart Foundation Inc ($55k).
- Does Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Winds Credit Union, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation, International Paper Company Foundation.
- Where is Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc based?
- Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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