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Gary and Mary West Foundation at a glance

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Gary and Mary West Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.0M
Granted FY2022
39
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$47MHuman Services$11MPhilanthropy$3.4MCrime & Legal$1.1MHousing & Shelter$711kEducation$698kFood & Nutrition$410kCommunity Improvement$151kOther$0
02FY2022 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $429k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $880k
  • $250k+5 grants · $7.7M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC$5,998,879
GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC$900,000
GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC$306,000
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO INC$192,500
THE SCAN FOUNDATION$150,000
SERVING SENIORS$125,000
SERVING SENIORS$112,500
PROJECT HOUSEWORKS$100,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$50,000
SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$50,000
CHALLENGE CENTER$35,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING: $57k → 10%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%REBUILDING TOGETHER OMAHA: $50k → 12%REBUILDING TOGETHER OMAHA: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $100k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $60k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $200k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 12%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $255k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $158k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $158k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $153k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $153k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $150k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $150k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $150k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $140k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $129k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $129k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $125k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $125k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $125k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $125k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $125k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $124k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $124k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $113k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $113k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $110k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $100k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $100k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $99k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $50k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Gary and Mary West Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 26%.

Gary and Mary West Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 33 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
30

Total granted

$59M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+29%

Still filing today

94%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GA
    GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $33M · revenue +192%
  • GA
    GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $4.9M · revenue +957% · 83% of their budget
  • SS
    SERVING SENIORS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.4M · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • CI
    CIVICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +194%
  • IS
    ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI - CENTER TO ADVANCE PALLIATIVE CARE
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +52%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
2
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
3
National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
8
Scan Health Plan

Scan's mission is to keep seniors healthy and independent.

Health
9
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
10
Emanate Health

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
11
Integrated Healthcare Association

Iha's mission is to bring the healthcare community together to solve industry-wide challenges that stand in the way of high-value care. as a non-profit industry association, we use objective data, our decades of expertise, and our unique…

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12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Seniors Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
44/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INC: $33,323,411 · HealthGARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH POLICY CENTER INCGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INC: $4,948,842 · HealthGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INCGARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE: $1,500,913 · Health+7 more: $299,500 · HealthGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC: $9,335,873 · OtherGARY AND MARY WEST SENIO…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1,127,576 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN…CIVICA INC: $1,000,000 · OtherCIVICA INCInterfaith Community Services Inc: $500,000 · Other+25 more: $1,890,749 · Other+25 moreSERVING SENIORS: $3,421,034 · Human ServicesSERVING SE…PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $535,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HO…INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $515,000 · Human ServicesINTERCULTU…SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $375,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO …THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Human ServicesTHE SCAN F…+10 more: $518,485 · Human Services+10 moreOmaha Community Foundation: $2,864,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $146,750 · PhilanthropyICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 · EducationCreighton University: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 · EducationHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE NURSES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $225,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $175,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionNOTRE DAME HOUSING INC: $166,230 · Housing & ShelterLEADINGAGE CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$40,072,666Other$13,854,198Human Services$5,714,519Philanthropy$3,011,250Education$777,500Food & Nutrition$410,000Housing & Shelter$176,230

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC: $9,335,873 over 6y, 94% of budgetGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INC: $4,948,842 over 4y, 83% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $3,421,034 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $2,864,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE: $1,500,913 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1,127,576 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCIVICA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $535,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $515,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $500,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $436,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetTHE SCAN FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers Assisting Seniors: $240,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $225,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $175,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNOTRE DAME HOUSING INC: $166,230 over 5y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING: $151,985 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetOUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC: $148,284 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $140,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC: $138,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetOUTLOOK ENRICHMENT: $135,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $76,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE NURSES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ORAL HEALTH: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $49,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $49,300 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGifford Medical Center Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLEADINGAGE CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE OF CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANCISCAN TERTIARY PROVINCE OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Gary and Mary West Ch…Jewish Community Foun…California Healthcare…Archstone FoundationPratt Memorial FundAlliance Healthcare F…The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Nordson Corporati…The San Diego Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
Gary and Mary West Charitable TrustCA39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gary and Mary West Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · California Healthcare Foundation · Archstone Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gary and Mary West Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary and Mary West Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gifford Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Gary and Mary West Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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