· Private foundation
The Windmill 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE | $30,000 |
| HEARTS ACROSS ROMANIA | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| PALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| HAPPY HILL FARM | $10,000 |
| FRIEND OF RESCUE ANIMALS | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $704k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Windmill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +23%
- HSHumane Society of North Texas9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +40%
- PRPALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- OKOPERATION KINDNESSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +240%
- SOSPCA of Texasone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -6%
JUDICIAL WATCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
The Organization is dedicated to finding life-long loving homes for stray, abandoned and abused cats and dogs. The Organization concentrates on networking with other animal welfare agencies in the county and throughout the state to provide…
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
Dedicated to saving homeless dogs and cats, foha provides rescue, medical care, and adoption services in the washington dc metropolitan region. more than 17,500 cats and dogs have found a safe haven with friends of homeless animals for…
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
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 CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds HEARTS ACROSS ROMANIA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM HUNGER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RESCUE ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TRRAC INC ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Windmill 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.