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Windcrest Foundation Inc

Middletown, VA · EIN 54-1847897. Reported 42 grants totalling $278,950 to 16 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$278,950granted, 2021-2025
16recipients, as named on its returns
77%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,030,019assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Windcrest Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $400 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
21 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Calvary Episcopal ChurchFront Royal, VA$67,000222025
Museum of the Shenandoah ValleyWinchester, VA$65,000552025
Samuels Public LibraryFront Royal, VA$60,250332025
The Kennedy CenterWashington, DC$43,000552025
Front Royal Womens Resource CenterFront Royal, VA$16,000442025
St Luke's Community ClinicFront Royal, VA$7,500552025
Blue Ridge Area Food BankVerona, VA$4,500222022
Valley Chorale of Front RoyalFront Royal, VA$2,600552025
Arts Chorale of WinchesterWinchester, VA$2,500332025
Laurel Ridge Community CollegeMiddletown, VA$2,500112025
WetaArlington, VA$2,500112025
Main Street Chamber OrchestraBerryville, VA$1,600222025
Dementia MattersBoyce, VA$1,000112022
Humane Society of Warren CountyFront Royal, VA$1,000112024
Nyumbani - Children of God ReliefWashington, DC$1,000112021
Warren County Educational EndowmentFront Royal, VA$1,000112024

10 of 16 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 77%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
16 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20217$26,500$1,500
20227$28,900$2,000
20236$46,125$4,562
202411$74,725$1,500
202511$102,700$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

84% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Virginia
$235K
District of Columbia
$44K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Community Foundation of the Northern5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Harrisonburg2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Virginia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Windcrest Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 7, Middletown, VA, 22645. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 54-1847897 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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