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.

The Tailwind Foundation

The Tailwind Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$309k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.3MHealth$455kEducation$304kArts & Culture$284kAnimals$178kEnvironment$165kInternational$100kSocial Science$100kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $134k
$10k–50k14 grants · $258k
$50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$250k+1 grant · $309k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HARLINGEN CISD	$309,484
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	$100,000
WRITE ON DOOR COUNTY	$62,500
GARFIELD HEIGHTS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB	$35,000
Individual grant recipient	$34,793
SNAKE RIVER FUND	$30,000
JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION	$30,000
NEW CENTURY ART GUILD	$20,000
SACRED HEARTS SCHOOL	$18,000
USO NORTHWEST	$15,000
SEA TURTLE INC	$15,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN	$10,000
SMILE TRAIN	$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$10,000
MUSEUM OF HISTORIC HOPKINSVILLE-CHRISTIAN COUNTY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$3.1M · 56 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+13%

Still filing today

63%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

BC
Baylor College of Medicine
3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +17%
EO
ENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE
3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +49%
JH
JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING
6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +89%

Funded once

TG
THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +49%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +13%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $13k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health

Air Transport Association of America Inc

Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…

—

The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education

Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture

Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. 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

43 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. 43 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

31/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,469,375Education$308,500Arts & Culture$185,250Health$165,000International$110,000Human Services$104,371Animals$82,500

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

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Tailwind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tailwind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home