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Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schools

Harrisonburg, VA · EIN 81-4379935. Reported 32 grants totalling $224,143 to 26 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$6,000median reported grant
$224,143granted, 2023-2024
43%of grantees funded again the next year
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schools, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C35) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $6,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $7,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $12,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
California State University San Marcos FoundationSan Marcos, CA$18,000222024
Colorado State University FoundationFort Collins, CO$13,000222024
Appalachian State UniversityBoone, NC$12,000222024
Northern Arizona University Fdn IncFlagstaff, AZ$12,000222024
St Johns University New YorkJamaica, NY$12,000112024
Texas Tech Foundation IncLubbock, TX$12,000222024
Advanced Technology Institute LcVirginia Beach, VA$11,650112024
Western Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI$11,565222024
Board of Trustees of Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL$11,250112023
California State University Fresno FoundationFresno, CA$10,500112024
University of Wisconsin FoundationMadison, WI$10,000112023
Montana State University FoundationBozeman, MT$7,500112023
Willow Bend Environmental Education CenterFlagstaff, AZ$7,500112023
James Madison University Foundation IncHarrisonburg, VA$6,000112024
Lincoln Land Community College FoundationSpringfield, IL$6,000112024
Mech Engineering Dept at SdsuBrookings, SD$6,000112023
Motlow State Community CollegeLynchburg, TN$6,000112024
New York City College of Technology Foundation IncBrooklyn, NY$6,000112023
Research Foundation of the City University of New YorkNew York, NY$6,000112024
Umass LowellShrewsbury, MA$6,000112023
University of New OrleansNew Orleans, LA$6,000112023
Pennsvylania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$5,939112024
The University of TennesseeKnoxville, TN$5,906112024
The University of ArizonaTucson, AZ$5,333112024
East Carolina University Foundation IncGreenville, NC$5,000112024
James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA$5,000112024

6 of 26 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
12 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Environment
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202314$103,250$6,000
202418$120,893$6,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

13% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$28K
Arizona
$25K
New York
$24K
Virginia
$23K
Illinois
$17K
North Carolina
$17K
Colorado
$13K
Texas
$12K

Down to the city

Flagstaff, AZ
$20K
San Marcos, CA
$18K
Fort Collins, CO
$13K
Boone, NC
$12K
Jamaica, NY
$12K
Lubbock, TX
$12K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsNational Collegiate Athletic Association9 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $6,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schools's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1401 Technology Drive Msc 4905 Ste, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807.

EIN 81-4379935 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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