California · Private foundation
Windy Bay Foundation
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Windy Bay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $356k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $139k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $58k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $61k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $106k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $104k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $151k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helena Unified School District | $1,655,270 | 2 | n/a |
| Partnership for Haas Preeminence | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Helena Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $10,523 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Napa Medical Research Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helena Unified School District | $1,655,270 | 2 | n/a |
| Partnership for Haas Preeminence | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Helena Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $10,523 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Napa Medical Research Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Eye Surgeons International | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Action of Napa Valley | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cristosal Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pepperwood Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| On Lok Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worldreaderorg | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Movement | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Windy Bay Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Marin Community Foundation · The Gamble Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Windy Bay Foundation
- How much does Windy Bay Foundation give?
- Windy Bay Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,521,270 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Windy Bay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Philanthropy (8%), Health (6%).
- Who are Windy Bay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Helena Unified School District ($1.7M), Partnership for Haas Preeminence ($200k), St Helena Hospital Foundation ($100k).
- Does Windy Bay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Windy Bay Foundation 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 Windy Bay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The Gamble Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Windy Bay Foundation based?
- Windy Bay Foundation is based in CA.
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