· Private foundation
Windhorse Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PAIA YOUTH COUNCIL INC | $5,000 |
| MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE MAUI | $2,500 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTThe Thacher School Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $158k · revenue +52%
MAUI FOOD BANK INC2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue +142%- MAMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegeone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
- AHAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
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 mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.
The mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.
The mission of pacific islanders in communications (pic) is to support, advance, and develop pacific island media content and talent that enhances public recognition of and appreciation for pacific islander history, culture and society.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
To inspire lifelong environmental stewardship and to ensure the survival of coral reefs and sea turtles in hawaii through science-based conservation efforts, education and outreach.
See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…
Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…
To provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PA'IA YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Maui Media Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEDGEYE CARES INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Windhorse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Windhorse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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