· Private foundation
The Windfall Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF HEAVENLY REST | $30,000 |
| HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
| THE MOUNT | $15,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| BLUE HILL TROUPE LTD | $10,000 |
| REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| TOWER HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| WNETTHIRTEEN | $2,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +145%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +37%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HMHAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TMTHE MOUNTone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL TROUPE LTD ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Windfall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Windfall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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