· Private foundation
Western Wind Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Inland Empire Community Foundation | $128,000 |
| FIND Food Bank | $50,000 |
| The Foundation for PSUSD | $45,000 |
| The Chijnaya Foundation | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs | $20,000 |
| The LGBT Community Center of the Desert | $15,000 |
| Capital & Main | $12,500 |
| Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival | $10,000 |
| University of Southern California | $10,000 |
| Desert Aids Project | $6,500 |
| Chicagoland Toys for Tots Motorcycle Parade | $6,000 |
| Maine Maritime Museum | $5,000 |
| Caravanserai Project | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Modern Men Coachella Valley Men's Chorus | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TLTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +229%
- FIFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +203%
- TCTHE CHIJNAYA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
- ACAmerican Cancer Societyone grant, 2017 · $23k
- TDTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT Xgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.
Pomona Valley Pride advances the well-being of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and allies through affirming support services, educational and arts programming, advocacy, collaborative partnerships, and community-centered initiatives that empower…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Coastpride is an organization created by our local community in san mateo county to improve the support, visibility, and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq) individuals and families.coastpride embraces…
Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society. since its inception, the los angeles lgbt center (center) has been building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete…
To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alianza Coachella Valley and the most unlike its peers is No Salt Sailing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE CHIJNAYA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PALM SPRINGS PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BROCKUS PROJECT DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL IN THE DESERT INC ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Science and Technology Educ Partnership ↗
- Who funds Cove Community Youth Soccer Assoc ↗
- Who funds CARAVANSERAI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LOVE & LOVE TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dezart Performs ↗
- Who funds DESERT ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds Del Shores Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The California Endowment · Betty R Sheffer Foundation Inc · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Eisenhower Medical Center · The Auen Foundation · Liberty Hill 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 organization Western Wind 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.
- Historic Northampton Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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