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Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$106M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
341
Grants FY2025
212
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$54,672
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,519,139
Organizations funded a year
2 to 212
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
36
Total assets, FY2025
$421M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving206$74M15%
FY2024212$74M12%
FY2023199$96M30%
FY2022201$67M100%
FY20192$37Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$162MArts & Culture$137MPhilanthropy$67MHousing & Shelter$23MHuman Services$8.2MHealth$5.7MEnvironment$3.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$56,092,331427%
Arkansas State University$25,036,1781n/a
University of Ar Ft Smith Foundationinc$19,277,337473%
Artspace Projects Inc$19,083,430325%
Abf Fund$15,064,500199%
Hendrix College$14,778,69848%
National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc$12,136,142364%
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education$10,022,510125%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc$9,482,567229%
Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence$4,992,993355%
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All grantees of Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$56,092,331427%
Arkansas State University$25,036,1781n/a
University of Ar Ft Smith Foundationinc$19,277,337473%
Artspace Projects Inc$19,083,430325%
Abf Fund$15,064,500199%
Hendrix College$14,778,69848%
National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc$12,136,142364%
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education$10,022,510125%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc$9,482,567229%
Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence$4,992,993355%
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts$3,358,759372%
Our House Inc$3,201,759217%
The Clay Studio$3,151,283347%
Mid-America Arts Alliance$2,796,016417%
Penland School Of Craft$2,765,263429%
University of the Ozarks$2,640,23045%
Philander Smith College$2,534,00045%
Museum of Craft and Design$2,438,000431%
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc$2,423,266367%
North Carolina Arts Foundation$2,353,461440%
The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc$2,332,400443%
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc$2,330,000454%
American Craft Council$2,222,393417%
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Inc$2,052,671220%
Starworks$1,846,050330%
Arkansas Foodbank$1,760,00041%
Arkansas Children's Foundation$1,687,500312%
Millsaps College$1,599,96532%
Thea Foundation$1,560,000453%
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts$1,550,000417%
Eastern Michigan University Foundation$1,400,00024%
Pilchuck Glass School$1,130,000321%
Arkansas Repertory Theatre$1,125,000419%
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation$1,000,00017%
Craft Alliance$986,150421%
Central Arkansas Library System Foundation$972,000430%
Arkansas Tech University Foundation$899,70045%
Fuller Craft Museum Inc$893,780414%
Mercy Health Foundation Northwest Arkansas$890,550317%
Center for Metal Arts Inc$860,000461%
Cccd Foundation$784,050287%
Warren Wilson College$774,75041%
Tennessee Technological University Foundation$736,00022%
Pocosin Arts Inc$732,620329%
Immerse Arkansas$725,00048%
Women's Studio Workshop Inc$700,000423%
American Museum of Ceramic Art$685,000413%
Brandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center$675,000423%
Calico Rock Community Foundation Inc$670,000367%
Arkansas Craft School$660,000477%
Comprehensive Juvenile Services Inc$605,934324%
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$604,00042%
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$600,00049%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc$600,00043%
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft$584,046314%
Theatre Squared Inc$550,00043%
Habitat for Humanity of Central Arkansas Inc$550,00048%
Eureka Springs School of the Arts$544,660326%
Goggle Works$486,752222%
The Society for Art in Crafts$480,00047%
Baptist Health Foundation Inc$469,71341%
Community Rescue Mission Inc$450,000325%
South Arts Inc$439,00033%
Vermont Studio Center Inc$430,00034%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$407,40030%
Life Skills for Youth$400,00023%
Museum of Arts and Design$400,00031%
Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$400,00036%
Parents and Friends of Children and Adults$400,000424%
Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc$380,000416%
Centers for Youth and Families Foundation$350,000420%
National Park College Foundation Inc$350,000115%
Baltimore Jewelry Center$345,000417%
Purchase College Foundation Inc$340,00043%
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art Inc$336,12048%
University of Arkansas at Monticello$298,9242n/a
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Inc$284,513228%
Space One Eleven Inc$280,000420%
Peters Valley School of Craft Inc$279,45738%
Laumeier Sculpture Park$276,71042%
John C Campbell Folk School Inc$257,00041%
Harding Fine Arts Academy Foundation$250,000127%
Impact Ministries Worldwide$250,0002n/a
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$248,75042%
Village Place$238,280395%
Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros$225,000310%
Brookfield Craft Center Inc$215,000315%
Figge Art Museum$211,55632%
McColl Center for Art Innovation$210,00028%
San Francisco Center for the Book$208,50046%
Northern Clay Center$204,00043%
Margie's Haven House Inc$203,66249%
Cub Creek Foundation Inc$200,000457%
Craft in America$200,00025%
The Center for Art in Wood Inc$200,000216%
Brandon Burlsworth Foundation$200,00047%
National Art Education Association$200,00032%
Asbury Theological Seminary$200,00020%
The Gregory Kistler Treatment Center Inc$194,48241%
Children's Museum of Nw Arkansas$185,00031%
South Walton Montessori Academy Inc$185,00046%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$180,00040%
Crafting the Future$180,000319%
Fort Smith Art Center Inc$175,00036%
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families$175,00042%
Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation$174,00031%
Flint Institute of Arts$167,50041%
Emergent Arts$167,500449%
Arkansas Cinema Society Inc$160,000411%
Potluck Inc$160,00032%
Southern Illinois University Foundation$154,00020%
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc$152,30040%
Pathway to Freedom Inc$150,000210%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc$150,00015%
Denver Seminary$150,0004n/a
CARTI Foundation Inc$150,00032%
Health Information Project Inc$145,00035%
Asbury College$144,00030%
The Call$140,00032%
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond$140,00042%
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson$135,00044%
Bucks County Community College Foundation Inc$134,50025%
Let Our Violence End$125,0001n/a
Minnesota Center for Book Arts$125,00044%
Bethlehem House Inc$125,00034%
Woodmere Art Museum$125,00031%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$122,59410%
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts$121,000418%
Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc$120,00042%
Lux Center for the Arts$120,00044%
Frist Art Museum$120,00040%
Greenwich House Inc$115,00040%
KC Clay Guild$111,97847%
Arrow Creative Inc$110,000215%
Mars Hill University$108,20020%
Galveston Arts Center$105,00046%
The Sawtooth School for Visual Art$102,00016%
Dieu Donne Paper Mill Inc$100,00018%
Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute$100,00047%
The Columbus Museum Inc$100,00012%
Youth Home Inc$100,00011%
Rise House Arkansas$100,00025%
Real Christian Foundation Inc$100,00046%
Grantmakers in the Arts$100,00041%
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc$100,000114%
The Muses Inc$100,00048%
Southwest School of Art$100,0001n/a
Arkansas' Independent Colleges & Universities$96,000210%
Josephine Sculpture Park Inc$95,000214%
Urbanglass New York Contemporary Glass Center Inc$90,00031%
Fort Smith Symphony Association$90,00043%
Cobscook Community Learning Center$90,00043%
Deltaarts Inc$85,000312%
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat$84,92010%
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc$84,00030%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$80,00030%
Starkville Area Arts Council$80,000441%
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$80,00040%
Camp Aldersgate Inc$75,00032%
PARK Foundation Inc$75,00031%
The Art School at Old Church Inc$75,00033%
Charlotte Street Foundation$75,00032%
E Stanley Jones Foundation$75,000338%
Tulsa Glass Blowing Studio Inc$75,000112%
Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund$72,00023%
Wells College$70,00010%
Rancho Cielo Inc$70,00030%
Save the Chimps Inc$70,00030%
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts$68,00025%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$65,00010%
Ox-Bow$62,37031%
Adopt-A-Classroom Inc$60,00030%
Alex Foundation$60,000323%
Creative Growth Art Center$60,00031%
Maryland Institute$60,00030%
Arts Center Association Inc$58,54421%
Duke University$57,07540%
Girls' Shelter of Fort Smith$55,00037%
Wiregrass Museum of Art Inc$53,71532%
Toe River Arts Council Inc$50,000112%
Arts Center$50,00014%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$50,00011%
South Florida Pbs Inc$50,00010%
Henderson State University$50,0001n/a
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas$50,00020%
American Folk Art Museum$50,00020%
Ouachita Baptist University$50,00020%
Tennessee Association of Craft Artists$50,00025%
Hispanic Community Services Inc$50,00023%
Thrive Inc$50,00025%
Asheville Glass Art School$50,00016%
Happy Valley Foundation$50,00020%
Kqed Inc$50,00010%
Wofford College$48,16110%
Friendship Foundation Inc$45,500128%
Mitchell County Animal Rescue Inc$45,00025%
Methodist Family Health Foundation$40,00041%
Kmac Museum$40,00022%
Humane Society of Pulaski County$40,00022%
Family Promise of Pulaski County Inc$35,000139%
Southeast Arkansas College$30,0001n/a
Mint Museum of Art Inc$30,00010%
Mount Sequoyah Center Inc$28,00021%
Cherokee County Arts Council of Nc$27,600132%
The Museum of Power and Industry$25,000118%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$25,00010%
Southern Arkansas University Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Henderson State University Foundation$25,00011%
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inc$25,00011%
Freeman Foundation$25,0001n/a
Boys Girls Adults Comm Dev Ctr Inc$25,00014%
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Lake Wales Arts Council Inc$25,00015%
Trustees of Eliot School$25,00011%
Colorado State University Foundation$25,00010%
James a Michener Art Museum$25,00011%
St Paul United Methodist Church$25,0001n/a
Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging Inc$24,99910%
Miami University$24,2781n/a
Ar Kids Read$23,00042%
Syracuse University$21,97510%
Allegheny College$21,37510%
Morgan Arts Council Inc$20,00016%
Clever Octopus Inc$20,00014%
Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap$20,0001n/a
Louisville Visual Art Inc$20,00021%
Ozark Folkways$16,41929%
Catching the Dream$15,00031%
The Delaplaine Arts Center Inc$15,00011%
Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas Inc$13,75010%
Raptor Rehab of Central Arkansas$10,0001n/a
Asheville Tool Library$10,00016%
Dog Harmony Inc$10,00017%
Hatch Workshop$9,8001n/a
The Mayfly Project$6,00030%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($70M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 34 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $56,092,331 over 4y, 27% of budgetUniversity of Ar Ft Smith Foundationinc: $19,277,337 over 4y, 73% of budgetArtspace Projects Inc: $19,083,430 over 3y, 25% of budgetAbf Fund: $15,064,500 over 1y, 99% of budgetHendrix College: $14,778,698 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetNational Ornamental Metal Museum Inc: $12,136,142 over 3y, 64% of budgetArkansas Colleges of Health Education: $10,022,510 over 1y, 25% of budgetArkansas State University System Foundation Inc: $9,482,567 over 2y, 29% of budgetWomen & Children First the Center Against Family Violence: $4,992,993 over 3y, 55% of budgetWatershed Center for the Ceramic Arts: $3,358,759 over 3y, 72% of budgetOur House Inc: $3,201,759 over 2y, 17% of budgetThe Clay Studio: $3,151,283 over 3y, 47% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance: $2,796,016 over 4y, 17% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $2,765,263 over 4y, 29% of budgetUniversity of the Ozarks: $2,640,230 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $2,534,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMuseum of Craft and Design: $2,438,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetBlack Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc: $2,423,266 over 3y, 67% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $2,353,461 over 4y, 40% of budgetThe Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc: $2,332,400 over 4y, 43% of budgetCraft Emergency Relief Fund Inc: $2,330,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetAmerican Craft Council: $2,222,393 over 4y, 17% of budgetArkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Inc: $2,052,671 over 2y, 20% of budgetStarworks: $1,846,050 over 3y, 30% of budgetArkansas Foodbank: $1,760,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetArkansas Children's Foundation: $1,687,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetMillsaps College: $1,599,965 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThea Foundation: $1,560,000 over 4y, 53% of budgetArrowmont School of Arts & Crafts: $1,550,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetEastern Michigan University Foundation: $1,400,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPilchuck Glass School: $1,130,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetArkansas Repertory Theatre: $1,125,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetArkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCraft Alliance: $986,150 over 4y, 21% of budgetCentral Arkansas Library System Foundation: $972,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetArkansas Tech University Foundation: $899,700 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetFuller Craft Museum Inc: $893,780 over 4y, 14% of budgetMercy Health Foundation Northwest Arkansas: $890,550 over 3y, 17% of budgetCenter for Metal Arts Inc: $860,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetCccd Foundation: $784,050 over 2y, 87% of budgetWarren Wilson College: $774,750 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTennessee Technological University Foundation: $736,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPocosin Arts Inc: $732,620 over 3y, 29% of budgetImmerse Arkansas: $725,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc: $700,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art: $685,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetBrandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center: $675,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetCalico Rock Community Foundation Inc: $670,000 over 3y, 67% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR107.7× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Riggs Benevolent Fund · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas · Rebsamen Fund · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Lpr 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.

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How do I get to Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

About Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc reported 341 grants totaling $105,574,943 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 212 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Arkansas Foundation Inc ($56M), Arkansas State University ($25M), University of Ar Ft Smith Foundationinc ($19M).
Does Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation.
Where is Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc is based in AR.

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 322 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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