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Wind 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 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 $10k24 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $27,500 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC | $10,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $10,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA BALLET | $7,590 |
| OPERA PHILADELPHIA | $7,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $6,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $5,339 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $3,000 |
| KIMMEL CENTER | $2,500 |
| RELACHE | $2,500 |
| WOODMERE MUSEUM | $2,250 |
| PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| MOORE COLLEGE OF ART | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +14%
- TBTHE BARNES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +59%
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MARKS CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +18%
- IOINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARTY ARTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the most unlike its peers is Relache Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 66 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds RELACHE INC ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Inliquidcom Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds TEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds VOX POPULI INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Julian a and Lois G Brodsky Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Dina Wind Art Foundation · Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance · Wyncote 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 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.
- Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% 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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