· Private foundation
Gary and Mary West Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $753k
- $250k+3 grants · $49M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE | $36,000,000 |
| GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC | $12,000,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $520,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO INC | $192,500 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $130,500 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $105,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $87,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $63,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| APPLE TREE DENTAL | $36,400 |
| CHALLENGE CENTER | $35,750 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GAGARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $58M · revenue +110% · 81% of their budget
- GAGARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18M · revenue +96%
- SSSERVING SENIORS3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GAGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue 0% · 41% of their budget
- TSTHE SCAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +21%
- OEOUTLOOK ENRICHMENTone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enable the access and choice of america's seniors in their housing and care by providing data, analytics and connections that bring together investors and providers in the sector.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
Senior advocacy services promotes the health, dignity, rights and quality of life of seniors and disabled in the north bay.
Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…
To promote independent and meaningful living for older adults through direct services and programs in the home and community.
To provide participant opportunities to low-income persons of ages 55 years and over that are located in northern nevada and northeastern california through its various programs.
Usaging represents & supports the national network of area agencies on aging & advocates for the title vi native american aging programs that help older adults & people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence &…
To support the healthcare family of Midwest Geriatrics through fund raising and advocacy.
Free legal services to seniors.
Norse home is a non-profit senior living community dedicated to dignified aging. as part of this mission, norse home offers an assisted living program that meets the needs of seniors as their capabilities diminish with the process of aging.
Through advocacy, education, innovation and collaboration, the association provides expanded possibilities for aging, value to its members, and leadership to the field of aging.
The organization's mission is to foster low-income and affordable housing for seniors and to promote, through networking with other non-profits, the supports and services necessary to maintain independence and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Seniors Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center Inc. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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.
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 GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SCAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLE TREE DENTAL ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC ↗
- Who funds OUTLOOK ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LAKE NONA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Volunteers Assisting Seniors ↗
- Who funds Gifford Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds California Foundation on Aging ↗
- Who funds SILVER GATE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: Gary and Mary West Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The California Endowment · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gary and Mary West Charitable Trust 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.
- Gifford Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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