How much did THE WINDWARD FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$105kFood & Nutrition$70kEnvironment$56kArts & Culture$50kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$1.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

paid

2022

—

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
VIRGINIA BEACH BILLFISH FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVER ELLIS FOUNDATION$10,000
TOWNE BANK FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 16 repeat orgs$457k 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

Total granted

$2.5M

$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+90%

Still filing today

50%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

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NORFOLK ACADEMY
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
DC
dare county boat builders foundation
6× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +57%
AC
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $130k · revenue +102%

Funded once

FO
FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +59%
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.

Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

Through our various programs, we provide almost 9.1 million meals to children, families, seniors, and veterans in our community.

Food & Nutrition

Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

Vashon Maury Community Food Bank

To work in partnership with our community to increase our island's food security and connect people to the supporting resources they need to thrive.

Unclassified

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat

To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.

Education

Norfolk Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Norfolk Public Schools Foundation

The furtherance of education

Education

Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Virginia Education Foundation

The Virginia Education Foundation promotes literacy, grade level reading, and school success by providing grants and non-cash revenues to Virginia Title I public schools and organizations in Virginia that serve the educational needs of…

Education

Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition

New Schools for Virginia

New schools of virginia creates more high quality educational opportunities for youth and families in virginia.

Education

Virginia Community Development Fund Inc

To Promote the development of affordable housing for Virginia and West Virginias poorest and most underserved residents.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Norfolk Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

14/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,525,328Other$1,165,833Philanthropy$105,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Environment$56,000Arts & Culture$50,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

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.

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · The Landmark Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shearwater Foundation Inc · Franklin Family Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community · The Blocker 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: dare county boat builders foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113831516 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on dare county boat builders foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Windward Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Windward Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE WINDWARD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Windward Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE WINDWARD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Windward Foundation?

More from the funding graph