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Windolf Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Windolf Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MEducation$421kHealth$116kReligion$88kArts & Culture$16kEnvironment$16kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREDERICA ACADEMY$75,000
SAFE HARBOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
GOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,000
ST SIMONS LAND TRUST$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE SEEING EYE: $5k → 4%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+89%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • FA
    FREDERICA ACADEMY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +75%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • GI
    GOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GATHERING PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +89%
  • TK
    THE KENT PLACE
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • TM
    THE MICA FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
10
Unavco Inc

Unavco, a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy.

—
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Golden Isles Youth Orchestra Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFE HARBOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $1,184,000 · OtherSAFE HARBOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGNWESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $85,000 · OtherWESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH+5 more: $13,000 · OtherFREDERICA ACADEMY INC: $350,500 · EducationFREDERICA ACADEMY INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthGOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentHARDING LAND TRUST: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE SEEING EYE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $2,500 · Religion
Other$1,282,000Education$420,500Health$100,000Arts & Culture$16,000Environment$16,000Human Services$6,000Religion$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREDERICA ACADEMY INC: $350,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FREDERICA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN ISLES YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA 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.

Julia Terrill Thomas …Davis Love III Founda…The Broadfield Founda…Arthur and Lindee Luc…Communities of Coasta…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Julia Terrill Thomas Foundation IncGA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Julia Terrill Thomas Foundation Inc · Davis Love III Foundation · The Broadfield Foundation · Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation Inc · Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Windolf Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Windolf Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 16 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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