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Windward Fund

Name: Windward Fund grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,072
grants reported: $393.6M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

environmental agriculture food nutrition building capacity action advocacy

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Atmospheric methane and emissions measurement, monitoring, verification
National climate and clean energy policy advocacy by large NGOs
Carbon removal and climate intervention field-building, including for-profit vehicles
State-level environmental justice and civic engagement across the South
Food systems: plant-forward defaults, nutrition, food waste
Regional disaster preparedness and community flood recovery

Typical grant

Half of all grants land at or near $100,000, and the middle half runs $50,000 to $250,000, so most of the 1,072 grants are modest. The seven-figure and eight-figure checks go to research universities, the largest national environmental NGOs, and climate-tech intermediaries like Carbon Mapper and Frontier Climate. With 1,072 grants to 723 recipients over three years, repeat funding is common and multi-year relationships are the norm rather than the exception.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS”
“AGRICULTURE, FOOD, NUTRITION”
“PUBLIC SAFETY, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RELIEF”
“clean energy”
“climate justice”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie proposals to emissions measurement and verification, the theme behind their largest single checks.
University teams should ask $300,000 to $1 million; that band is well populated.
Pair national analysis with a named Southern state partner in NC, GA, TX, or LA.
For carbon removal work, frame as shared infrastructure and governance, not a single-lab experiment.

Worth knowing: Windward operates as an intermediary and regrantor, so much of this money moves through fiscal sponsors and pooled vehicles like Tides, Amalgamated, and Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, and it will fund LLCs and companies such as Frontier Climate Management and Lumen Biosciences. The top dozen grantees absorb a large share of the $393 million while hundreds of $50,000 to $100,000 grants build out state networks in California, DC, Texas, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.

4 grants matching “loud” · $230,000

$80,000
Loud Light · Topeka, KS · 2024
Environmental programs
$50,000
Dreaming Out Loud · Washington, DC · 2023
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$50,000
Loud Light · Topeka, KS · 2023
Environmental programs
$50,000
Loud Light · Topeka, KS · 2022
Environmental programs

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Potential Energy Coalition3 grants · $26.3M
Carbon Mapper2 grants · $25.0M
Home Planet Fund1 grant · $19.9M
Environmental Defense Fund3 grants · $14.5M
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development3 grants · $12.1M
The Regents of University of California Davis2 grants · $10.4M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors2 grants · $9.9M
Clean Air Task Force3 grants · $8.4M
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois1 grant · $8.3M
Rocky Mountain Institute3 grants · $7.2M

Giving over time

$144.6M

2022

$111.3M

2023

$137.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,072 grants.

$20.0M
Carbon Mapper · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Environmental programs
$19.9M
Home Planet Fund · Ventura, CA · 2022
Environmental programs
$13.2M
Potential Energy Coalition · New York, NY · 2023
Environmental programs
$13.1M
Potential Energy Coalition · New York, NY · 2022
Environmental programs
$9.3M
The Regents of University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
Environmental programs
$8.3M
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Champaign, IL · 2024
Environmental programs
$7.8M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$6.7M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Environmental programs
$5.3M
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2023
Environmental programs
$5.0M
Carbon Mapper · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$4.6M
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$4.5M
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group · New York, NY · 2023
Environmental programs
$4.1M
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental programs
$3.9M
Hourglass Climate · Montclair, NJ · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.5M
Inter-American Development Bank · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$3.4M
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.4M
The Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.4M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Environmental programs
$3.3M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Environmental programs
$3.2M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
Environmental programs
$3.0M
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2022
Environmental programs
$3.0M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.8M
Frontier Climate Management Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.5M
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · Woods Hole, MA · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.5M
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · Woods Hole, MA · 2022
Environmental programs
$2.5M
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2022
Environmental programs
$2.4M
Cascade Climate · Somerville, MA · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.4M
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.4M
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.4M
The Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Environmental programs
$2.3M
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.3M
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.3M
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.2M
Mighty Earth · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.1M
Frontier Climate Management Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.1M
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.0M
Earthworks · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$2.0M
Taproot Earth · Tulsa, OK · 2022
Environmental programs
$2.0M
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.7M
Foundation for Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Environmental programs
$1.6M
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.6M
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.6M
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.6M
The Sunrise Project · Dover, DE · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.5M
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Environmental programs
$1.5M
Global Energy Monitor · Covina, CA · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.4M
Meridian Institute · Dillon, CO · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$1.4M
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.3M
Rewiring America · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.3M
Crew Carbon · New Haven, CT · 2023
Environmental programs
$1.3M
Link Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.3M
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.2M
The Global Foodbanking Network · Chicago, IL · 2022
Environmental programs
$1.2M
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.2M
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.2M
Delterra · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$1.1M
The Regents of University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
International Sustainable Energy Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
We Are Down Home · Greensboro, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
Healthy Gulf · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Nature Conservancy · Chester, NJ · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Cascade Climate · Somerville, MA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy · Oakland, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Global Foodbanking Network · Chicago, IL · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental programs
$992,000
Natural Resource Governance Institute · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$975,300
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$967,131
The Nature Conservancy · Chester, NJ · 2023
Environmental programs
$967,131
The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Environmental programs
$916,167
Aquatic Laboratories · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Environmental programs
$900,000
Southern Vision Alliance · Durham, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$800,000
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$800,000
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$793,333
The Nature Conservancy · Chester, NJ · 2022
Environmental programs
$780,000
Workers Assistance Program · Austin, TX · 2022
Environmental programs
$775,000
9to5 National Association of Working Women · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Environmental programs
$750,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$750,000
The Center for Energy Education · Roanoke Rapids, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$750,000
Capital B News · New York, NY · 2022
Environmental programs
$715,000
St Croix Foundation for Community Development · Christiansted, VI · 2023
Environmental programs
$700,000
Food for Climate League · Evanston, IL · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$700,000
Friends of the Earth · Washington, DC · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$700,000
Greener By Default · Chicago, IL · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$691,857
Lumen Bioscience · Seattle, WA · 2024
Environmental programs
$690,000
Georgia Stand Up · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$676,500
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Environmental programs
$675,000
Bvm Capacity Building Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Environmental programs
$673,250
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2024
Environmental programs
$660,000
Together Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Civil rights, social action, advocacy
$650,000
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$618,448
The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Environmental programs
$600,800
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$600,000
Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$600,000
Mercy for Animals · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$600,000
The Institute for Enhanced Equity · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Environmental programs
$600,000
Bayou City Waterkeeper · Houston, TX · 2022
Environmental programs

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.