· Private foundation
Harriett B West Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FDN | $30,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JACKSON-FEILD BEHAVIORAL HLTH SVCS | $25,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEEUM OF HISTORY CULTURE | $20,000 |
| CHANCO ON THE JAMES | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- 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 GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harriett B West Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harriett B West Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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