Arizona · Private foundation
Three Desert Winds 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.
- $146k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Three Desert Winds Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 10 | $146k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $159k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $144k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $142k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $143k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $114k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $144k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan House | $237,000 | 7 | 3% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $210,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Phoenix Gospel Mission | $62,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc | $53,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Homeworthy | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One World Childrens Fund | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arizona Humane Society | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Three Desert Winds 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: Arizona Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Three Desert Winds Foundation
- How much does Three Desert Winds Foundation give?
- Three Desert Winds Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $146,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Three Desert Winds Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Health (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%).
- Who are Three Desert Winds Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ryan House ($237k), St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($210k), Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix ($100k).
- Does Three Desert Winds Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Three Desert Winds 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 Three Desert Winds Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc, American Express Foundation.
- Where is Three Desert Winds Foundation based?
- Three Desert Winds Foundation is based in AZ.
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