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· Private foundation
PETER & PENELOPE WEST CHARITABLE FUND
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$1.2M
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
5
Communities
$750k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Arts & Culture$939kHuman Services$140kEmployment$111kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$231k
02FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
$40,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
- RAGDALE FOUNDATION$750,000
- BENJAMIN'S HOPE$130,000
- ACOR$52,500
- STATELINE DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION$50,000
- PROJECT ONWARD$40,000
- ZION DEVELOPMENT$40,000
- MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART$40,000
- FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$30,000
- HOLLAND MUSEUM$11,000
- BEACON PLACE$10,000
- FRIENDS OF PALMETTO BLUFF CONSERVANCY$10,000
- NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$10,000
- LAKE FOREST PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
- ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
3
Total granted
$1.4M
$70k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+48%
+15%
Still filing today
44%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EmploymentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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
- RFRAGDALE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +109% · 38% of their budget
- BHBENJAMIN'S HOPE4× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +212%
- POPROJECT ONWARD8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SDSTATELINE DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +15%
- RFROSECRANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
2
Renaissance Social Services Inc
Develop low-income residential facilities & address needs of individuals in these facilities.
Human Services
3
Aspire of Illinois
Aspire's mission is to support the successes of people with developmental disabilities, strengthen their families and build embracing communities.
Human Services
4
The Rose House
The Rose House helps adults with developmental disabilities pursue full, active lives by providing them and their families with: 1) Innovative choices for living and learning - 2) Opportunities for independent living to the full extent of…
Human Services
5
Cedille Chicago Nfp
Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.
Arts & Culture
6
Imagine Art
We leverage art and place; empowering artists with disabilities who become creative catalysts for changing system of day habilitation; long-term care, peer support, and affordable housing.
Arts & Culture
7
Ray Graham Association for People
To create opportunities that empower people with disabilities to reach, grow, and achieve.
Unclassified
8
Opera Colorado
Arts & Culture
9
Giant Steps Illinois Inc
Giant Steps Illinois, Inc. provides services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Education
10
Rimland Services Nfp
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Human Services
11
Grounds for Sculpture Inc
Grounds For Sculpture combines art and beckoning spaces to welcome, surprise, and engage all visitors in the artists act of invention.
Arts & Culture
12
Living Well Disability Services
Transforms lives of people impacted by disabilities through delivery of exceptional services
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lambs Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Onward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$938,700Other$231,000Human Services$140,000Employment$111,000Health$31,400Food & Nutrition$10,000Philanthropy$10,000
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 RAGDALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds ZION DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ONWARD ↗
- Who funds FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAMBS FARM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE ↗
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.
The Chicago Community TrustIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation PETER & PENELOPE WEST CHARITABLE FUND 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RAGDALE FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 362937927 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RAGDALE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 38% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Peter & Penelope West Charitable Fund?
Find your warmest path to Peter & Penelope West Charitable Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines