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Windcrest Foundation Inc

Middletown, VA · EIN 54-1847897. Reported 31 grants totalling $176,250 to 14 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$176,250granted, 2021-2024
14organizations funded
71%of grantees funded again the next year
$982,892assets, 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $400 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Museum of the Shenandoah ValleyWinchester, VA$60,000442024
The Kennedy CenterWashington, DC$40,000442024
Calvary Episcopal ChurchFront Royal, VA$35,000112024
Front Royal Womens Resource CenterFront Royal, VA$12,000332024
Samuels Public LibraryFront Royal, VA$10,250222024
St Luke's Community ClinicFront Royal, VA$6,000442024
Blue Ridge Area Food BankVerona, VA$4,500222022
Valley Chorale of Front RoyalFront Royal, VA$2,000442024
Arts Chorale of WinchesterWinchester, VA$1,500222024
Dementia MattersBoyce, VA$1,000112022
Humane Society of Warren CountyFront Royal, VA$1,000112024
Main Street Chamber OrchestraBerryville, VA$1,000112024
Nyumbani - Children of God ReliefWashington, DC$1,000112021
Warren County Educational EndowmentFront Royal, VA$1,000112024

8 of 14 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 71%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
11 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Education
2 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

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 77% of this one's giving went to organizations in Virginia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Virginia
$135K
District of Columbia
$41K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of the Northern4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Harrisonburg2 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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