· Private foundation
The Windibrow 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MN | $7,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF MN | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,500 |
| MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MN | $3,000 |
| REID PARK ZOO | $2,500 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - MN | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $2,000 |
| THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST | $1,500 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $1,000 |
| THE HERMITAGE CAT SHELTER | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +8%
- RPREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +199%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- EBEAST BAY SCHOOL FOR BOYSone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -5%
- NVNORTH VIRGINIA REGIONAL AUTHORITYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVERone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Masters School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REPOWER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tucson Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Windibrow Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.