Virginia · Private foundation
Harriett B West Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $650k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $165,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Harriett B 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; $40k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $650k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $450k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $435k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $460k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $480k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $410k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $205,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Good Neighbor Village | $175,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Westminster Canterbury Foundation | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Elk Hill Farm Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Andrew's School | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Challenge Discovery Projects Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Better Housing Coalition | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Virginia Historical Society | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Caritas | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $205,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Good Neighbor Village | $175,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Westminster Canterbury Foundation | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Elk Hill Farm Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Andrew's School | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Challenge Discovery Projects Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Better Housing Coalition | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Virginia Historical Society | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Caritas | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Emmanuel Episcopal Church | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Richmond Metro Habitat for Humanity | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chanco on the James Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| ART 180 Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Health Brigade | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Free Clinic of Powhatan Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| GoochlandCares | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Daily Planet Incorporated | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harriett B West Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 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
How this is measured
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About Harriett B West Foundation
- How much does Harriett B West Foundation give?
- Harriett B West Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $650,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harriett B West Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Harriett B West Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Anna Julia Cooper School ($205k), Good Neighbor Village ($175k), Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc ($150k).
- Does Harriett B West Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harriett B West Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harriett B West Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Shelton H Short Jr Trust.
- Where is Harriett B West Foundation based?
- Harriett B West Foundation is based in VA.
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