Winding Stair Foundation
EIN 85-3533254 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 5 grants · $4.5k
Who it funds most
0 of its 3 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Winding Stair Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 3 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202512129349100306
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns5 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202512129349100306 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202431279349102563 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202332969349100723 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202241889349100414 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202123379349100502 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Winding Stair Foundation made 8 grants across 2021–2024, totalling $72.3k as filed.
- Grants
- 8
- Total, as filed
- $72.3k
- Years
- 2021–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| OPEN HAND ATLANTA | 1 | $41.5k |
| Macon County Farmers Market | 1 | $26.0k |
| MACON CARENET | 1 | $2.8k |
| MANNA HOUSE | 1 | $1.0k |
| MACON COUNTY LIBRARY | 1 | $600 |
| NANTAHALA HIKING CLUB | 1 | $287 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | 1 | $99 |
| ZONTA CLUB OF FRANKLIN AREA | 1 | $99 |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $42.0k |
| 2022 | 3 | $4.3k |
| 2024 | 1 | $26.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-853533254. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified