· Private foundation
Harriett B West Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RICHMON | $165,000 |
| VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| RICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| ELK HILL FARMINC | $30,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| BON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FDN | $30,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
| CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS | $25,000 |
| JACKSON-FEILD BEHAVIORAL HLTH SVCS | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEEUM OF HISTORY CULTURE | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| CHANCO ON THE JAMES | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +276%
- GNGOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +11%
- LGLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- RMRONALD McDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM FOR HISTORY CULTUREone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
The mission of goodwin house incorporated ("ghi") is to support, honor and uplift the lives of older adults and the people who care for them through a faith-based, nonprofit organization affiliated with the episcopal church.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
The mission of the columbia county community healthcare consortium, inc. is improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of people in our rural community.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc. 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 33 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Herndon Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 Harriett B 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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