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Peter & Penelope West Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- $10k–50k10 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAGDALE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| BENJAMIN'S HOPE | $130,000 |
| ACOR | $52,500 |
| STATELINE DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ZION DEVELOPMENT | $40,000 |
| PROJECT ONWARD | $40,000 |
| MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART | $40,000 |
| FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $30,000 |
| HOLLAND MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| LAKE FOREST PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BEACON PLACE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PALMETTO BLUFF CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +5% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- RFRagdale Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +117% · 38% of their budget
- BHBENJAMIN'S HOPE4× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +67%
- POPROJECT ONWARD8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SDSTATELINE DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
- RFROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -41%
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…
Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…
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…
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosecrance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 Ragdale Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds ZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ONWARD ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization 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.
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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