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The K2 Wind Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$1.3MHealth$125kPhilanthropy$100kEducation$20k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Health Defense$25,000
Colorado Cleantech Industry Associa$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Prime Coalition: $50k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+3063%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PI
    PRIME Impact Loan Funds I LLC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M
  • SP
    Save Popponessett Bay Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue -14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • PO
    PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -73%
  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue ×45

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clean Oceans International

Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.

Science & Tech
2
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

The mission of the organization is to educate the general public regarding issues of public policy and to promote and bring about advances in such areas of public policy. the organization promotes public policy change through education,…

Social Science
3
Ocean Conservation International Inc

Support ocean conservation namibia to rescue seals from plastic entanglement and raise awareness for plastic pollution.

Science & Tech
4
Clean Ocean Access Inc

Action today so future generations can enjoy ocean activities. programs: clean - eliminate marine debris; ocean - improve coastal water quality; access - protect and preserve shoreline access.

Environment
5
Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project Inc

Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project, Inc. has been organized for the purpose of marine life conservation. More specifically, the organization will conduct large cleanup missions for marine life conservation at Papahanaumokuakea Marine…

Animals
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
9
Captains for Clean Water Inc

To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.

Environment
10
Clean Reefs
Environment
11
Ocean Visions Inc

Ocean visions develops and advances solutions to protect and restore the ocean. we mobilize and support inventors, scientists, policy makers and others to invent and advance innovative ocean-based solutions that reduce stressors, restore…

Science & Tech
12
The Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration Inc

To empower the global underwater science community with the tools and expertise required to explore the greatest depths of the planet's largest and deepest bodies of water and return with discoveries that amaze and inspire a global…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plastic Oceans International. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIME Impact Loan Funds I LLC — $1,000,000 · OtherPRIME Impact Loan Funds I LLCSave Popponessett Bay Inc — $125,000 · OtherSave Popponessett Bay Inc+2 more — $17,420 · OtherPLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL — $100,000 · EnvironmentPLASTIC O…CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'…OPERATION SMILE INC — $100,000 · InternationalVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPRIME COALITION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education
Other$1,142,420Environment$125,000International$100,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$50,000Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSave Popponessett Bay Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPADI AWARE FOUNDATION — $16,420 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The K2 Wind Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc2% of 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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