Virginia · Private foundation
The Windward 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.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Windward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $302k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $326k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $311k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $261k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $434k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $533k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $781k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $156k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Norfolk Academy | $1,331,661 | 7 | 2% |
| Mdrc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dare County Boat Builders Foundation | $145,000 | 6 | 15% |
| An Achievable Dream Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Access College Foundation | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The River Ellis Foundation | $73,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Elizabeth River Project | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($597k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Windward Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Windward Foundation
- How much does The Windward Foundation give?
- The Windward Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $312,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Windward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Human Services (11%), Employment (8%).
- Who are The Windward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Norfolk Academy ($1.3M), Mdrc ($250k), Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ($250k).
- Does The Windward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Windward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Windward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Windward Foundation based?
- The Windward Foundation is based in VA.
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