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Windmill 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.

$615k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$2.2MHuman Services$1.1MCommunity Improvement$515kYouth Development$190kReligion$40kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$275,000
WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC$50,000
THE JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION$50,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$40,000
FAMILY CENTERS$40,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$40,000
CHILD BRIDGE$30,000
NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,000
BIGFORK ACES INC$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $510k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $30k → 18%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $50k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $50k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $50k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $50k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $35k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $35k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $30k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 10 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+48%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FV
    FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +45%
  • WM
    WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $505k · revenue +36% · 29% of their budget
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $320k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • Fairfield Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +48%
  • FB
    FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
2
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
6
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
7
Family Futures

To help all children in our community reach their full potential.

Crime & Legal
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

Fairfield county's community foundation serves the 23 towns and cities in fairfield county, ct. we work closely with community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and philanthropists to address challenges and identify opportunities to…

Philanthropy
10
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bigfork Aces. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,225,000 · OtherFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INCNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $340,000 · OtherNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGEFAMILY CENTERS INC — $230,000 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INCIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · Other+2 more — $45,000 · OtherWOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC — $505,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN'S MENTOR…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHIL…CHILD BRIDGE INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE …SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $320,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationFairfield University — $50,000 · EducationBIGFORK ACES — $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,300,000Community Improvement$515,000Human Services$510,000Health$320,000Education$300,000Youth Development$190,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,225,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetWOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC — $505,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $320,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $300,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $230,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC — $210,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBIGFORK ACES — $190,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetFairfield University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDarien Community Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC
  • Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC
  • Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC
  • Who funds BIGFORK ACES
  • Who funds Fairfield University
  • Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Darien Community Association Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

B E a Family IncMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B E a Family Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Windmill Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 20%
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc47% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc20% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Windmill Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Windmill 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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