Texas · Private foundation
The Tailwind Foundation
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.
- $863k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $309,484
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Tailwind Foundation 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; $68k 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 | 52 | $863k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $700k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $615k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $531k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $471k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District | $1,312,133 | 6 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maria Lanakila | $108,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Endowment of the US Institute of Peace | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding | $80,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Write on Door County Inc | $62,500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | $50,000 | 5 | 8% |
| New Century Art Guild Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 22% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($670k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tailwind Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Tailwind Foundation
- How much does The Tailwind Foundation give?
- The Tailwind Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $863,277 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Tailwind Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (39%), Health (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Tailwind Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District ($1.3M), Baylor College of Medicine ($200k), Maria Lanakila ($108k).
- Does The Tailwind Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tailwind Foundation 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 The Tailwind Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Tailwind Foundation based?
- The Tailwind Foundation is based in TX.
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