Ohio · Public charity
Community West Foundation
The mission of the COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION is to advance the health and well being of our community
- $9.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 153
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 135
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $8.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $29,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 135
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $184M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Community West Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 149 | $8.6M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 135 | $5.6M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 118 | $4.7M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $5.1M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 101 | $4.2M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $4.0M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 90 | $4.2M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $2.8M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Hope in the City | $2,156,980 | 9 | 8% |
| Cleveland Metropolitan Park District | $1,576,550 | 8 | n/a |
| Purple Heart Homes Inc | $1,200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $1,165,018 | 9 | 0% |
| Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless | $1,032,114 | 9 | 24% |
| Bay Presbyterian Church | $925,700 | 9 | n/a |
| Neighborhood Alliance | $856,487 | 9 | 3% |
| Community Service Alliance | $774,102 | 9 | 27% |
| Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry | $747,739 | 9 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $721,200 | 9 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Community West Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 182 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Murphy Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County
How this is measured
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About Community West Foundation
- How much does Community West Foundation give?
- Community West Foundation reported 153 itemized grants totaling $8,629,977, out of $9,891,089 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 135 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community West Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (16%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Community West Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Building Hope in the City ($2.2M), Cleveland Metropolitan Park District ($1.6M), Purple Heart Homes Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Community West Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community West Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.
- Where is Community West Foundation based?
- Community West Foundation is based in OH.
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