· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH TID FKA JDRF | $100,000 |
| NORFOLK ACADEMY | $83,333 |
| RIVER ELLIS FOUNDATION | $28,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - MOREHEARD-CAIN SC | $25,000 |
| DARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FUND | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH BILLFISH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GALILEE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE OF VA BARRIER ISLANDS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
MDRC5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +25%- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +67%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $40k
- HMHatteras Marlin Clubone grant, 2021 · $33k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.
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.
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
Mjh foundation provides investment and management services for martha jefferson hospital, a non-profit organization which provides healthcare to the community.
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…
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…
To improve the region's trajectory of economic growth and competitiveness through thought leadership, establishing and monitoring the economic development and innovation strategy in an equitable manner, and fostering collaboration among…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds DARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The River Ellis Foundation ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds MOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds C BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds PALMISANO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Windward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Windward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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