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High Wind Association Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0160% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$44kInternational$37kFood & Nutrition$17kReligion$14kEducation$6kHealth$3kRecreation & Sports$3kScience & Tech$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CITY SCHOOL$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM: $2k → 5%MEQUON NATURE PERSERVE: $6k → 6%NOURISH FARMS: $5k → 9%THOREAU COLLEGE: $2k → 15%WISCONSIN GREEN MUSLIMS: $2k → 17%GROUND CONSERVENCY: $2k → 19%WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM: $2k → 5%MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE: $4k → 6%NOURISH FARMS: $5k → 9%GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%WISCONSIN GREEN MUSLIMS: $2k → 17%WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM: $2k → 5%MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE: $3k → 6%NOURISH FARMS: $3k → 9%NATIONAL HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $2k → 10%WISCONSIN GREEN MUSLIMS: $2k → 17%WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM: $2k → 5%MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE: $3k → 6%CAMP Y-KODA: $2k → 9%HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY: $4k → 10%WI NATURE ACTION COLLA FOR CHILDRE: $2k → 5%MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE: $3k → 6%CAMP ANOKIJIG: $8k → 9%HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY: $3k → 10%MILWAUKEE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSORTIUM: $2k → 17%EARTHFEST: $2k → 9%HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY: $3k → 10%BIODYANMIC ASSN: $2k → 17%CAMP ANOKIJIG: $5k → 9%HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY: $3k → 10%HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY: $3k → 10%CAMP ANOKIJIG: $5k → 9%CAMP ANOKIJIG: $4k → 9%TOM HEINEN: $9k → 17%TOM HEINEN: $9k → 17%CAMP ANOKIJIG: $4k → 9%TOM HEINEN: $5k → 17%TOM HEINEN: $5k → 17%YOUTH HAITI: $10k → 17%YOUTH HAITI: $7k → 17%SUSTAINABLE LIVING GROUP: $3k → 9%YOUTH HAITI: $5k → 17%SUSTAINABLE LIVING GROUP: $3k → 9%YOUTH HAITI: $5k → 17%SUSTAINABLE LIVING GROUP: $2k → 9%YOUTH HAITI: $5k → 17%YOUTH HAITI: $5k → 17%INTERFAITH CONF OF GREATER MILWAUKE: $10k → 17%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204k · 20 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$204k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+95%

Still filing today

25%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • YOUTHAITI INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $28k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $26k

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERFAITH CONF OF GREATER MILWAUKE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GC
    GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +95%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HERITAGE LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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

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
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
2
Faye Gehl Conservation Foundation
Environment
3
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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4
Wisconsin Environmental Initiative Inc

WEI works to improve the environment, economy, and quality of Wisconsin through initiatives that promote responsible businesses, sound environmental policy, green building, and water stewardship.

Unclassified
5
Green Interchange Inc

18,000 native trees planted and public education about the positive impact on air and water quality, community health, and the local economy.

Environment
6
The Common Acre

The common Acre restores relationships between people and the land through ecology, agriculture and art.

Arts & Culture
7
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
8
Healthy Harvest Community Garden
Environment
9
Winnett Food Forest
Food & Nutrition
10
Milwaukee Audubon Society Inc

Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship

Environment
11
Renew Richmond

Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.

Environment
12
Nourishing Food for Thought Inc

Sustainable farming and nutritinal education

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Garden Initiative Inc; the most unlike its peers is City School Inc. 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 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINTERFAITH CONF OF GREATER MILWAUKE: $10,000 · OtherINTERFAITH CONF OF GREATER MILWAUKEIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+11 more: $31,500 · Other+11 moreYOUTHAITI INC: $37,000 · InternationalYOUTHAITI INCMequon Nature Preserve Inc: $18,500 · EnvironmentMequon Nature Pre…WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentWAUKESHA COUNTY G…VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentVICTORY GARDEN IN…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSE…FAIR FUTURE MOVEMENT INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentFAIR FUTURE MOVEM…NOURISH FARMS INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionTHOREAU COLLEGE INC: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · Education
Other$133,000International$37,000Environment$34,500Food & Nutrition$12,500Education$6,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTHAITI INC: $37,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNOURISH FARMS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM INC: $8,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHOREAU COLLEGE INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIR FUTURE MOVEMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY SCHOOL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 YOUTHAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
  • Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THOREAU COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIR FUTURE MOVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY SCHOOL 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 High Wind Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Wind Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to High Wind Association Inc?

    Find your warmest path to High Wind Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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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