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Windhorse Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$5.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Windhorse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$40k0%
FY202311$104k36%
FY202211$61k27%
FY202110$109k10%
FY20209$43kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$214kArts & Culture$52kPhilanthropy$30kFood & Nutrition$27kYouth Development$25kHealth$18kSocial Science$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Windhorse Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Thacher School Inc$157,50040%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$50,00010%
Maui Food Bank Inc$27,00020%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center$25,00050%
Pa'Ia Youth Council Inc$25,00051%
Ah Haa School for the Arts$15,00011%
Hospice Maui Inc$12,50050%
Hawaii Public Radio$6,00040%
Maui Media Initiative Inc$6,00042%
Pacific Cancer Foundation$5,50041%
Hedgeye Cares Inc$5,00017%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Windhorse Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaui Arts & Cultural Center: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPa'Ia Youth Council Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAh Haa School for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHospice Maui Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Public Radio: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Media Initiative Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPacific Cancer Foundation: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHedgeye Cares Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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 11.

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.

Maui United WayHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maui United Way · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

Compare Windhorse Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Windhorse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Windhorse 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.

About Windhorse Foundation

How much does Windhorse Foundation give?
Windhorse Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Windhorse Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Windhorse Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Thacher School Inc ($158k), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($50k), Maui Food Bank Inc ($27k).
Does Windhorse Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Windhorse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Windhorse Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maui United Way, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Windhorse Foundation based?
Windhorse Foundation is based in HI.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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