How much did COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$7.9MHealth$3.9MFood & Nutrition$2.4MReligion$1.8MEducation$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MRecreation & Sports$757kArts & Culture$542kOther$13M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2021

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2022

donor advisedcollaborativeimpact presidentialimpact donordonor restrictionspresidential donorjulie billiart

2023

donor advisedimpact donorimpact presidentialdonor restrictionsjulie billiartpresidential donorneighborhoods

2024

donor advisedimpact donorimpact presidentialdonor restrictionspresidential donormigration refugeewestshore meals

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $88k
$10k–50k82 grants · $2.0M
$50k–250k40 grants · $2.9M
$250k+2 grants · $600k

$28,250

Median grant

States reached

$171M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLEVELAND METROPARKS$349,739
ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL$250,500
BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY$149,750
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$131,050
LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY$129,600
COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE$110,700
NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$105,700
TRUE FREEDOM MINISTRIES$102,800
UNITED WAY$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE$93,450
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$92,100
YWCA OF CLEVELAND$83,950
RESOURCE CLEVELAND$82,600
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION$79,050
MALACHI HOUSE$77,519

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$32M · 157 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

157 repeat relationships — 112 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157

Total granted

$32M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+12%

Still filing today

76%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GC
Greater Cleveland Foodbank
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
BH
Building Hope in the City
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +329%
NO
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless
8× · 2017–2024 · $804k · revenue +597%

Funded once

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $479k · revenue +426%
NC
North Coast Health
one grant, 2017 · $79k
SP
St Paul's Community UCC
one grant, 2017 · $49k · revenue -12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services

West Side Catholic Center

The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.

Human Services

Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.

Human Services

Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

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Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers engages people to serve the community through meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Philanthropy

Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services

Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. ohio living is dedicated to living our mission and keeping the promises we make…

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Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services

Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter

Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education

New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health care to the people of the fairfield county and other areas in ohio

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Service Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Heidelberg University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%4/224

the rest of the field

11%

1,224/11,045

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

166/178

Grantees still filing

137/178

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,273,803Human Services$7,919,413Health$3,872,001Food & Nutrition$2,350,416Religion$1,846,662Education$1,396,460Philanthropy$1,358,422

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH137.6× affinity108 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · Community Foundation of Lorain County · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

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 organisation COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Youth Bee Works.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814554350 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Youth Bee Works, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community West Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Community West Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community West Foundation?

More from the funding graph

COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community West Foundation?

More from the funding graph