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WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,588 to it, the largest being INVITED FOUNDATION ($156,088). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.4M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$313k
Net assets
$3.5M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Windward Sails Charitable Foundation Inc does

Mission

To build, develop, and foster a community for adults with disabilities and senior citizens by building and operating a community center providing educational fitness and recreational programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Design and development of a community center for adults with disabilities and senior citizens

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($238k) Net assets -1 ($-41308)2024 Revenue 1716 ($3.4M) Expenses 4 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)
20232024
Revenue (1716)Expenses (4)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8k to $3.6M (+46654%).

$8k
$3.6M
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’23
$3.4M
’24
3812
months of
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

Patricia Cusack

President and chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed34
Joined·+4
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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

WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

97% 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 WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC.

50%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

MI
MA
VA
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 1616% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve3812.0mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)1616% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: 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 WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,588 to it, the largest being INVITED FOUNDATION ($156,088). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $312,588 in grants to WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
INVITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $156,088 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing