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Wend II Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$725k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$55MEducation$52MCommunity Improvement$20MEnvironment$19MEmployment$17MYouth Development$15MInternational$12MHuman Services$10MOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $452k
  • $250k+1 grant · $725k
$174,713
Median grant
5
States reached
$154M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Amalgamated Foundation$724,972
NEO Philanthropy$176,807
Zephyr Impact$174,713
Rios to Rivers$100,000
Capital for Good$23,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Friendly House Inc: $60k → 11%Economic Empowerment Center: $750k → 12%Ekvnv Yefolecvlke: $200k → 18%Heart of America Indian Center Inc: $200k → 15%North Carolina Justice Center: $100k → 8%Village Exchange Center: $300k → 6%Running Strong for American Indian Youth: $150k → 6%One22 Inc: $250k → 5%Seeds of Harmony Inc: $80k → 28%Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples: $50k → 18%North Carolina Justice Center: $50k → 8%The Tipi Raisers: $225k → 7%Project Roots: $50k → 11%The Tipi Raisers: $225k → 7%The Tipi Raisers: $150k → 7%Standing Rock Community Development Corporation: $255k → 33%The Tipi Raisers: $100k → 7%Tanner Community Development Corporation: $95k → 11%Indian Land Tenure Foundation: $200k → 14%The Tipi Raisers: $55k → 7%Indian Land Tenure Foundation: $100k → 14%Commonweal: $360k → 8%The Tipi Raisers: $53k → 7%Native American Development Center: $50k → 10%National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development: $105k → 11%Indian Land Tenure Foundation: $100k → 14%Commonweal: $360k → 8%Edward Charles Foundation: $1.1M → 14%GiveDirectly Inc: $5.0M → 17%COMMONWEAL: $300k → 8%Shadetree Multicultural Foundation: $150k → 14%Collaborative Healing Initiative within Communities: $100k → 8%Edward Charles Foundation: $750k → 14%Collaborative Healing Initiative within Communities: $100k → 8%Intercambio Uniting Communities: $135k → 12%Village Exchange Center: $100k → 8%Sacred Pipe Resource Center: $125k → 10%Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $170k → 17%Village Exchange Center: $100k → 8%One Hundred Angels: $50k → 11%Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $160k → 17%Zephyr Impact: $6.3M → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $86k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $85k → 12%Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities: $220k → 12%Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities: $75k → 12%Village Exchange Center: $250k → 12%Village Exchange Center: $50k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Wend II Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wend II Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140M · 154 repeat orgs$70M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

154 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 153 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
294

Total granted

$140M
$69M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +27%
  • MY
    MENOMINI YOU INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.2M · revenue +566% · 88% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +99% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • GW
    Great Work Education Holdings Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $9.6M · revenue -88%
  • ZI
    ZEPHYR IMPACT
    one grant, 2024 · $6.3M · revenue -90% · 90% of their budget
  • ISSUE ONEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
Embracing Equity Inc

Embracing equity cultivates the mindsets and practices necessary to create an affirming, inclusive, and equitable educational ecosystem.

Education
3
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
4
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
7
Good Work Institute Inc

The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.

Human Services
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Post Growth Institute

To design and uplift equitable approaches that inherently circulate money and intentionally circulate power in our local communities & global economy.

Public Benefit
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Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
10
Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture

To improve the quality of life for native hawaiians through community partnerships that provide educational opportunities and promote self-sufficiency.

Education
11
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
12
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. 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

371 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. 371 of the 480 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
362/371
Grantees still filing
214/371
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEYOND CONFLICT INC: $5,000,000 · EducationBEYOND CONFLICT INCTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $4,780,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDAT…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,500,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCMENOMINI YOU INC: $3,220,000 · EducationMENOMINI YOU INCRISE COLORADO: $2,907,700 · EducationRISE COLORADONATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: $2,027,000 · EducationNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $1,750,000 · EducationNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $1,550,000 · Education+35 more: $20,487,330 · Education+35 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,205,224 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charita…Great Work Education Holdings Inc: $9,550,000 · PhilanthropyGreat Work Educatio…PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION: $6,964,000 · PhilanthropyPEOPLEFORBIKES FOUN…IMPACT CHARITABLE: $2,350,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT CHARITABLEARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $1,450,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $6,950,000 · Philanthropy+11 moreGreat Work Inc: $11,983,949 · OtherGreat Work IncNDN Collective Inc: $6,328,500 · OtherNDN Collective IncEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,200,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVECapital For Good: $4,974,205 · OtherCapital For GoodTHE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE: $2,930,000 · OtherFIRST DESCENTS: $2,889,500 · Other+84 more: $39,579,725 · Other+84 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $8,116,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE…SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $2,250,015 · EnvironmentSHELTERWOOD…INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY AND OUR FUTURE: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE F…Amazon Watch Inc: $1,575,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watc…SARARA INSTITUTE: $1,165,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $1,160,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $850,000 · Environment+13 more: $4,938,800 · Environment+13 moreZEPHYR IMPACT: $6,274,468 · Human ServicesZEPHYR IM…GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $5,000,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIREC…EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1,825,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CH…COMMONWEAL: $1,020,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEA…THE TIPI RAISERS: $837,500 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $807,500 · Human ServicesEconomic Empowerment Center: $750,000 · Human Services+7 more: $2,250,000 · Human Services+7 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc: $8,283,844 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE: $5,000,000 · Public BenefitCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $570,000 · Public BenefitTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $5,355,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $1,650,000 · Community ImprovementSicangu Community Development Corporation: $810,000 · Community ImprovementThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $666,920 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $542,223 · Community ImprovementPOTLIKKER CAPITAL: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCITY THREAD: $467,310 · Community ImprovementHELENA GROUP FOUNDATION: $425,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER COLORADO: $411,209 · Community Improvement+5 more: $1,165,000 · Community Improvement
Education$45,222,030Philanthropy$37,469,224Other$73,885,879Environment$22,054,815Human Services$18,764,468Public Benefit$13,853,844Community Improvement$11,992,662

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,205,224 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $8,283,844 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $8,116,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION: $6,964,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetZEPHYR IMPACT: $6,274,468 over 1y, 90% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $5,355,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,200,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBEYOND CONFLICT INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $4,780,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,500,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMENOMINI YOU INC: $3,220,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetTHE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE: $2,930,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetRISE COLORADO: $2,907,700 over 4y, 79% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $2,889,500 over 4y, 43% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $2,350,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $2,250,015 over 5y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: $2,027,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY AND OUR FUTURE: $2,000,000 over 3y, 81% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1,825,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $1,750,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $1,750,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $1,650,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $1,576,261 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $1,575,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $1,550,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $1,536,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $1,350,433 over 2y, 19% of budgetPROJECT 4112 INC: $1,350,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,210,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC: $1,210,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetGRIPTAPE ORG INC: $1,209,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSARARA INSTITUTE: $1,165,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $1,160,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $1,130,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $1,020,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEDUCATION REIMAGINED: $1,000,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMontessori Public Policy Initiative: $978,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $957,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetPR EDUCATION INITIATIVE CORP: $900,000 over 4y, 54% of budget
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.

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.

Rose Community Founda…Gates Family Foundati…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…The Schmidt Family Fo…Ndn Collective IncMargulf FoundationFirst Nations Develop…Donnell-Kay Foundatio…Colorado Gives Founda…Gary Philanthropy
Rose Community FoundationCO63.5× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · Margulf Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gary Philanthropy

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wend II Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wend II Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc: 17% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Forth Mobility Fund: 7% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Wend II Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wend II Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 480 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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