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Brewster West Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DE MARILLAC ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL | $100,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOME | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE BISHOPS RANCH | $100,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE ON WAR REVOLUTION AND PEACE | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT SCHOOL FOR BOYS | $100,000 |
| ADA'S CAFE | $50,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $30,000 |
| MECHANICS INSTITUTE LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Our vision is to inspire and empower people to make Californias richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LARK THEATER ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKE TAHOE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brewster West Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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