Connecticut · Private foundation
Westwind Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 161
- Grants FY2024
- 147
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,209,629
- Organizations funded a year
- 108 to 147
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $88M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Westwind Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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 | 154 | $5.6M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 147 | $5.7M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 139 | $6.1M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 139 | $5.9M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 128 | $3.8M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 108 | $3.4M | 12% |
| FY2018 | 117 | $4.5M | 9% |
| FY2017 | 115 | $4.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advocates for Youth | $13,142,394 | 8 | 28% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $1,025,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Dkt International Inc | $969,775 | 8 | 0% |
| Public Health Institute | $790,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc | $735,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Appalachian Voices | $720,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | $708,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Southern Alliance for Clean Energy | $660,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $645,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Ceres Inc | $635,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 140 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Westwind Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Westwind Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Westwind Foundation
- How much does Westwind Foundation give?
- Westwind Foundation reported 161 grants totaling $5,928,366 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 147 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Westwind Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (42%), Environment (24%), Health (9%).
- Who are Westwind Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Advocates for Youth ($13M), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($1.0M), Dkt International Inc ($970k).
- Does Westwind Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Westwind 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 Westwind Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The J & E Berkley Foundation, The Oak Hill Fund.
- Where is Westwind Foundation based?
- Westwind Foundation is based in CT.
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