Delaware · Private foundation
Western Wind Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $349k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $128,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Western Wind Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $211k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $325k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $371k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $440k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $310k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $344k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $269k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $254k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lgbtq Community Center of the D | $245,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Food in Need of Distribution Inc | $240,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alianza Coachella Valley | $167,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Chijnaya Foundation Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 12% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Cultural Center Inc | $82,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Palm Springs Pride Inc | $64,600 | 4 | 9% |
| Palm Springs Art Museum | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Palm Springs Young Playwrights | $35,000 | 5 | 14% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($683k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Western Wind 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Western Wind Foundation
- How much does Western Wind Foundation give?
- Western Wind Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $349,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Western Wind Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Philanthropy (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Western Wind Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Lgbtq Community Center of the D ($245k), Food in Need of Distribution Inc ($240k), Alianza Coachella Valley ($168k).
- Does Western Wind Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Western Wind Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Western Wind Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inland Empire Community Foundation, The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation, HN and Frances C Berger Foundation.
- Where is Western Wind Foundation based?
- Western Wind Foundation is based in DE.
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