California · Private foundation
Harry and Ethel West Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $187k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,970
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Harry and Ethel West Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $187k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $180k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $135k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $133k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $121k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $139k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $168k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $174k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany Services Inc | $153,072 | 9 | 0% |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California State University Bakersfield Foundation | $58,850 | 8 | 0% |
| Valley Children's Hospital | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Coyote Club | $45,000 | 9 | 23% |
| Global Family Care Network Inc | $21,625 | 4 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Bakersfield | $19,435 | 2 | 3% |
| The Cat People Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Country Christian School Inc | $9,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($913k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry and Ethel 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: Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · Resnick Foundation · Dignity Health · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Harry and Ethel West Foundation
- How much does Harry and Ethel West Foundation give?
- Harry and Ethel West Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $186,656 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry and Ethel West Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are Harry and Ethel West Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethany Services Inc ($153k), Bakersfield Memorial Hospital ($65k), California State University Bakersfield Foundation ($59k).
- Does Harry and Ethel West Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry and Ethel West Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry and Ethel West Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation, Kern Community Foundation, The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation.
- Where is Harry and Ethel West Foundation based?
- Harry and Ethel West Foundation is based in CA.
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