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The Windward 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.

$326k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$321kEmployment$250kHealth$147kPhilanthropy$147kFood & Nutrition$80kRecreation & Sports$63kReligion$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $228k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORFOLK ACADEMY$128,334
BREAKTHROUGH TID FKA JDRF$100,000
GALILEE CHURCH$27,500
VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL$25,000
UNC CHAPEL HILL - MOREHEARD-CAIN SC$20,000
RIVER ELLIS FOUNDATION$10,000
VIRGINIA BEACH BILLFISH FOUNDATION$10,000
TOWNE BANK FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $45k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $40k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 20%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $15k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $15k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 16 repeat orgs$472k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$2.5M
$347k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+49%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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

  • TN
    THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +13%
  • MDRC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +67%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • HM
    Hatteras Marlin Club
    one grant, 2021 · $33k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…

Recreation & Sports
2
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
4
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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5
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
6
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
7
James Barry Robinson Institute

The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.

Human Services
8
Mjh Foundation

Mjh foundation provides investment and management services for martha jefferson hospital, a non-profit organization which provides healthcare to the community.

Health
9
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
10
The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc

The virginia foundation for community college education (vfcce) mission is building student success and the commonwealth's future by supporting virginia's community colleges. vfcce provides statewide leadership in raising funds for…

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11
Virginia Housing Alliance

Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the virginia housing alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing…

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12
The Elizabeth River Trail Foundation

Organization's mission through the master planning, programming and advocacy of this urban waterfront trail, we are able to provide multi-model access to our historic working waterfront, connect 28 communities along 10.5 miles and serve as…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Townebank Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr14%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr14%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
14%
2,425/17,746

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $1,248,328 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACADEMYDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $145,000 · EducationDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATIONACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION+2 more — $22,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH TID FKA JDRF — $100,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH TID FKA …GALILEE CHURCH — $57,500 · OtherGALILEE CHURCHNORFOLK ACADEMY ANNUAL FUND — $50,000 · OtherNORFOLK ACADEMY ANNUA…SALVATION ARMY — $40,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHatteras Marlin Club — $33,333 · OtherHatteras Marlin ClubIndividual grant recipient — $21,000 · OtherFACT — $20,000 · OtherFIRST TEE OF HAMPTON ROADS — $20,000 · OtherUNC CHAPEL HILL - MOREHEARD-CAIN SC — $20,000 · OtherTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FES…Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $20,000 · OtherJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $119,000 · Other+17 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $250,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $135,000 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVABLE …+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMDRC — $250,000 · EmploymentMDRCVirginia Beach Billfish Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyThe River Ellis Foundation — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of South Hampton Roads — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $70,000 · Food & NutritionThe Elizabeth River Project — $56,000 · Environment
Education$1,545,328Other$570,833Human Services$395,000Employment$250,000Philanthropy$115,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Environment$56,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $1,248,328 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMDRC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $135,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project — $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVirginia Beach Billfish Foundation — $50,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe River Ellis Foundation — $45,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetMOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWNEBANK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPALMISANO FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Patricia and Douglas …Tidewater Jewish Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…The Landmark Foundati…Suffolk FoundationThe Southeast Virgini…Beazley Foundation In…The Blocker FoundationTownebank FoundationUnited Way of South H…Brown Advisory Charit…Hampton Roads Communi…
Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family FoundationVA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Blocker Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community 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 Windward 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Windward Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Windward Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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