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Pacific Western Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $18,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| SONG FOR CHARLIE | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SANTA CHIARA CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-SAN PEDRO | $4,000 |
| MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| PROVINCE OF THE WEST - SOCIETY OF JESUS | $3,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-SAN FRANCISCO | $3,000 |
| SANTA TERESITA SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PROYECTO PASTORAL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +39%
- SFSONG FOR CHARLIE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue ×35
- MSMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL - SJ SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $8k
- DMDOLORES MISSION SCH - ADOPT-A-STUDEone grant, 2017 · $7k
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Santa Chiara Childrens Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
15 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. 15 of the 65 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 PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SONG FOR CHARLIE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYCREST MANOR ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN MATEO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Santa Chiara Childrens Center ↗
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: Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Klm Foundation · The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Edmund and Mary Shea Family Foundation · Ccf-La Supporting Organization · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Dignity Health
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 Pacific Western 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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