How much does Wind Foundation give?

Wind Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $115,968 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wind Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), International (21%), Education (3%).

Who are Wind Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Reichman University Inc ($172k), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($136k), The Barnes Foundation ($55k).

Does Wind Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wind 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 Wind Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.

Where is Wind Foundation based?

Wind Foundation is based in PA.

Wind Foundation

Wind Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$116k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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$494kInternational$159kEducation$25kScience & Tech$11kReligion$10kPhilanthropy$6kCivil Rights$5kHealth$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $56k
$10k–50k4 grants · $60k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MOORE COLLEGE OF ART	$2,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$686k · 30 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$686k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+18%

Still filing today

80%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

PM
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +14%
TB
THE BARNES FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +59%
CI
CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +95%

Funded once

SM
SAINT MARKS CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $10k
TI
THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +18%
IO
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARTY ART
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture

The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education

Philadelphia Contemporary

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…

Human Services

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

Association for Public Art

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…

Arts & Culture

The Frick Collection

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.

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Artphilly

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…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture

Berggruen Institute

Education

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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.

Arts & Culture

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

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.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$443,053International$173,558Other$109,372Education$18,750Philanthropy$4,900Health$1,580Human Services$1,000Civil Rights$762

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.

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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 Wind Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 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.

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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