New York · Nonprofit
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($953,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $375k
What Wind Beneath My Wings Foundation does
Mission
The primary purposes and mission of the Organization is to engage in community building by supporting the personal development of individuals and facilitating self empowerment by promoting self awareness, health, leadership and life skills and by providing educational support to social justice and economic development initiatives.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Organization has dedicated substantial resources, support and development of its Transformative Change program initiatives and the Radical Dharma Program initiatives. The Transformative Change Program work in collaboration with external partners to seed and incubate projects and experiences that intersect social justice, embodiment, collective liberation and mindfulness. The Radical Dharm Program initiatives offer contemplative, healing and embodied skills knowledge, historical context to its objectives and desired outcomes.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Organization's new initiatives in relation to the Transformative Change Program provide online and in-person facilitated training and educational programs designed to enhance self awareness and life skills and to promote the intersection between mindfulness and race and social justice consciousness building. The Organization has provided and supported several 3-month learning modules which have serviced approximately 475 individuals.
$196,000 spent$46,000 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe Organization's new initiatives have promoted and supported the Radical Dharma Program which offers and nourishes contemplative, healing and embodied skills of its participants. The Radical Dharma Program objectives is to enhance life skills and resources for its participants. This Program has coordinated and facilitated three (3) different land based five (5) day retreats led by Rev. Angel at (a) the Hollyhock Retreat Center on Cortes Island, BC (June 2022), (b) the Drala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, CO and (c) the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY (September 2022).
$157,500 spentof which $30,000 as grants$35,000 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe Organization promotes the instruction, facilitation and support of mindfulness meditation and living skills to members of the public and online community.
$35,000 spentof which $3,500 as grants$5,000 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $388,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3k to $375k (+10868%).
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 WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Richard R Zayas
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $33k → $550k.
10 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION’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
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 65% · 2022 64% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $65k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION: 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 WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION?
- WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($953,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,529,521 in grants to WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $953,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 12 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