· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k78 grants · $261k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH | $2,209,629 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $225,000 |
| DKT INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| SELC | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $125,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $125,000 |
| TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA | $110,000 |
| ACTION FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING | $90,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $85,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK | $85,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $75,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH NETWORK | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
169 repeat relationships: 139 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 15 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +69%
Public Health Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +130%- CCCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $735k · revenue +232%
Funded once
NEO Philanthropy Incone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +1%- NVNEW VENTURE FUND - FOSSIL FUELone grant, 2017 · $50k
- YTYOUTH TECH HEATLTHone grant, 2018 · $39k
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.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
How this is measured
143 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. 143 of the 227 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds DKT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds Catholics for Choice ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds WETLANDS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Westwind Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westwind Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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