Minnesota · Nonprofit
FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS
FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,250 to it, the largest being FRANCES CURRAN FOUNDATION AGENCY CO CETERA ($21,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Four Winds Connections does
Mission
Four Winds Connections lives and loves radically at the intersection of human and animal well-being. We work within communities, support change and invite healing through the human-animal bond. Four Winds Connections preserves the human-animal bond through financial assistance for veterinary care for the pets of marginalized communities; tribal partnerships and an annual Indigenous Animal Health and Wellbeing Gathering; pet food support; and temporary homes and volunteer foster training for the pets of victim-survivors of domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Love - Financial assistance for veterinary care and behavioral support for the pets of marginalized communities
$27,406 spent36% of program spendingFoster Healing - Provides participants with support to grow their animal training skills and tools to nurture their personal well-being
$601 spent1% of program spendingIndigenous Animal Health and Wellbeing Conference - Two-day conference and one-day pet wellness clinic on White Earth Nation in September 2025
$27,090 spent35% of program spendingMinnesota Pet Coalition - Connects victim-survivors of domestic violence in the Twin Cities with reliable foster care for their pets while they seek safety
$7,862 spent10% of program spendingFour Winds Pet Pantry - Addresses the need for pet ownership among rural low-income families to be more affordable and accessible through free pet food and essential equipment
$7,242 spent9% of program spendingReactive Dog Foster Training - Addresses the lack in resources animal well-being organizations face in regard to rescuing and adopting out special behavioral needs dogs
$2,457 spent3% of program spendingTribal Partnerships - Work supports community members and their beloved four-legged companions with access to veterinary care, behavioral support and resource navigation
$3,826 spent5% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stacy Bridavsky
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS?
- FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,250 to it, the largest being FRANCES CURRAN FOUNDATION AGENCY CO CETERA ($21,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $49,250 in grants to FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS?
- FRANCES CURRAN FOUNDATION AGENCY CO CETERA is the largest funder on record, with $21,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing