As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Windward incubates and hosts projects that pursue bold solutions to environmental challenges. Our shared operational home allows project leaders and donors to convene and collaborate on crucial environmental issues, leveraging the work of other projects to strengthen their efforts and impact. Windward provides strategic support, guidance on best practices, operations expertise, and specialized compliance knowledge to hosted projects.
Windward Fund is building a more impactful and inclusive environmental movement by providing fiscal sponsorship to organizations pursuing bold solutions to the climate crisis and other pressing environmental challenges. We also connect people who want to support these innovative solutions to maximize impact.
At Windward Fund, we envision a more equitable world, built on fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all. While we work to build a more impactful environmental movement, we know that advancing equity and belonging is essential to solving the climate crisis. As such, we dedicate ourselves to integrating equity and belonging into our day-to-day work and fostering an inclusive culture at Windward.
Our Commitment
We continuously integrate equity and belonging into everything we do at Windward Fund—and we encourage others to do the same. We intentionally steward equity and belonging within our programmatic goals, we proudly live our values, and we partner with donors who share our commitment. And, crucially, we invite those who are earlier in their journey to join us in this effort.
Our Equity & Belonging Goals
To deliver sustainable solutions to the planet’s greatest challenges, we will continue to invest in equity at Windward Fund and through our work.
The Windward Fund is proud to offer a variety of services to our clients and donors.
Windward offers comprehensive fiscal sponsorship to projects that are legal entities but do not have tax-exempt status. Our project hosting services enable philanthropists and changemakers to more quickly achieve their social impact goals—even on the most complex challenges. Your dedicated team will provide your project with the needed support and systems to help you get a project off the ground and scale quickly and cost-effectively. We worry about the details, so projects and their donors don’t have to.
Windward Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on building a more impactful and inclusive environmental movement that addresses the climate crisis. We offer comprehensive fiscal sponsorship services to environmentally focused projects and provide a vehicle for effective, community-based, grassroots grantmaking.
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Windward Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that files Form 990 tax documents each year.
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