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Wind Point Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$122kHuman Services$115kInternational$110kArts & Culture$93kHealth$80kEnvironment$70kEducation$45kFood & Nutrition$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
$7,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mercy Corps$15,000
Oasis Free Clinics$15,000
Hospitality Homes Inc$12,500
Triangle Land Conservancy$12,000
Children's Literacy Foundation$10,000
World Central Kitchen$10,000
Windrush Farm$10,000
Save the Children$10,000
The Telling Room$8,000
317 Main Street Community Music Center$8,000
Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program$7,000
Freeport Community Services$7,000
Tedford Housing$7,000
PORCH Hillsborough$7,000
Friends of the Groton Elders$7,000
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 (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Friends of the Groton Elders: $7k → 8%Windrush Farm: $10k → 10%Freeport Community Services: $7k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $7k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $7k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $7k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $5k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $5k → 7%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
VT
MN
MA
OR
CT
CO
NC
DC
HI
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$695k · 17 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$695k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OH
    OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +269%
  • TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +392%
  • Hospitality Homes Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • NC
    North Carolina Community Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • HOUSING FOR NEW HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +50%
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
Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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2
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
3
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
4
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
5
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
Opportunity Council

Opportunity Council (The Council) helps address immediate and crisis-related basic needs such as food, emergency shelter, and eviction prevention. The Council also helps develop self-sufficiency and resiliency within our community by…

Human Services
9
Maine Philanthropy Center

The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…

Education
10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
12
Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is Porch-Hillsborough. 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

29 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. 29 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hospitality Homes Inc: $68,500 · Housing & ShelterHospitality Homes…TEDFORD HOUSING: $48,000 · Housing & ShelterTEDFORD HOUSINGHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 · InternationalSave The Childr…Mercy Corps: $40,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL K…317 Main St Community Center Inc: $48,000 · Arts & Culture317 Main St …GROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGROTON HILL …THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM A…ORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNT…FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38,000 · Human ServicesFREEPORT COM…FRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF G…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FAR…OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $80,000 · HealthOASIS HEALT…Volunteers of America Northern New England: $29,000 · OtherVolunteers of America Northern New…Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $27,000 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention Progra…North Carolina Community Fund: $10,000 · OtherEngineers without Borders: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATIONThe Telling Room: $33,000 · OtherThe Telling RoomSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCMaine Community Foundation Inc: $15,000 · OtherMaine Community Foundation IncHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $34,000 · Other+6 moreTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE …
Housing & Shelter$121,500International$110,000Arts & Culture$88,000Human Services$86,000Health$80,000Other$243,000Environment$70,000

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 budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $80,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $68,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $48,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INC: $38,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetThe Telling Room: $33,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPorch-Hillsborough: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Community Squash: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLake Street Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustTriangle Community Fo…Kennebec Savings Bank…The Skerryvore Founda…Androscoggin Bank's M…The Mary Duke Biddle …Simmons Foundation - …Boston Foundation Inc
Maine Community Foundation IncME24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · The Skerryvore Foundation Inc · Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet Fdn Portland Trust Company LLC · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Boston Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report 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.
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How do I get to Wind Point Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wind Point 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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