Skip to content
Western Wind Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Western Wind Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$128k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$469kPhilanthropy$410kEducation$339kHuman Services$333kFood & Nutrition$245kCommunity Improvement$219kInternational$191kAnimals$178kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Broad Horizons Theatre Company Inc$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival: $10k → 11%Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival: $10k → 11%Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival: $8k → 11%THE L FUND: $8k → 11%Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival: $5k → 11%Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival: $3k → 11%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

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
NM
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 41 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
55

Total granted

$2.2M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+57%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TL
    THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D
    7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +229%
  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +203%
  • TC
    THE CHIJNAYA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • AC
    American Cancer Society
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • CO
    College of the Desert Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +124%
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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
2
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
—
3
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Historical Society

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.

—
5
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
6
Pomona Valley 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…

Civil Rights
7
Center for Community Solutions

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…

Health
8
Coastpride Inc

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…

Health
9
Los Angeles Lgbt Center

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…

—
10
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Chile-California Council

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alianza Coachella Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Foundation for PSUSD: $276,300 · OtherThe Foundation for PSUSDALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY: $167,500 · OtherALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEYThe Chijnaya Foundation: $55,000 · OtherSanctuary of Palm Springs: $50,900 · OtherSwedish American Museum of Chicago: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $95,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC+61 more: $642,188 · Other+61 moreInland Empire Community Foundation: $392,330 · PhilanthropyInland Empire C…+1 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $245,000 · Civil RightsTHE LGBTQ CO…GREATER PALM SPRINGS PRIDE INC: $64,600 · Civil RightsGREATER PALM…+2 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $82,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of …PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $47,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRING…BROCKUS PROJECT DANCE COMPANY: $33,500 · Arts & CultureBROCKUS PRO…PALM SPRINGS DANCE PROJECT: $24,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRING…THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DESERT …Dezart Performs: $18,500 · Arts & CultureDezart Perf…DESERT ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,250 · Arts & CultureDESERT ENSE…Del Shores Foundation: $14,500 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MAIN: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $36,675 · Arts & Culture+8 moreFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $240,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN N…THE CHIJNAYA FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · InternationalCARAVANSERAI PROJECT: $26,000 · InternationalDAP Health Inc: $31,500 · HealthThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower: $25,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY: $21,500 · HealthHARBOR TO THE BAY INC: $5,000 · HealthTRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · Health
Other$1,336,888Philanthropy$404,330Civil Rights$324,600Arts & Culture$307,925Food & Nutrition$240,000International$191,000Health$121,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $392,330 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $245,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $240,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY: $167,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CHIJNAYA FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $82,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PALM SPRINGS PRIDE INC: $64,600 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Palm Springs: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPALM SPRINGS YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $35,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetBROCKUS PROJECT DANCE COMPANY: $33,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC: $32,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetScience and Technology Educ Partnership: $30,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCove Community Youth Soccer Assoc: $26,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCARAVANSERAI PROJECT: $26,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS DANCE PROJECT: $24,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY: $21,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLOVE & LOVE TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDezart Performs: $18,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetDESERT ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,250 over 6y, 12% of budgetPalm Springs Cultural Center: $16,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDel Shores Foundation: $14,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER: $13,207 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGOLAND TOYS FOR TOTS MOTORCYCLE PARADE: $12,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATION OF THE ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOak Grove Institute Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCING STEPS: $7,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE L-FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNickerson-Rossi Dance: $6,175 over 1y, 12% of budgetHARBOR TO THE BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIVES TORRES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS DANCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds LOVE & LOVE TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
  • Who funds Dezart Performs ↗
  • Who funds DESERT ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds Del Shores Foundation ↗

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.

Inland Empire Communi…The Grace Helen Spear…HN and Frances C Berg…Regional Access Proje…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Anderson Childrens Fo…The California Endowm…Betty R Sheffer Found…The Coeta and Donald …Eisenhower Medical Ce…The Auen FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA65.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Western Wind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Wind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Historic Northampton Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Western Wind Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Western Wind Foundation 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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Western Wind’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home