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Robert B Westfall Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Robert B Westfall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$129k50%
FY202317$97k35%
FY202217$141k47%
FY202111$105k45%
FY20208$81k13%
FY201916$70k31%
FY201826$102k50%
FY201728$107kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$710kCommunity Improvement$54kHealth$27kRecreation & Sports$25kHousing & Shelter$6kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
WY
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Adrian College$81,50050%
Lenawee Chamber Foundation$54,000314%
Michigan State University$40,0005n/a
University of Michigan$27,00053%
Dexter Wrestling United$22,0001n/a
Jackson College$14,0004n/a
Siena Heights University$14,00030%
Indiana University School of Medicine$11,2503n/a
Loyola Marymount University$10,00010%
Utah State University$8,7504n/a
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Robert B Westfall Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Adrian College$81,50050%
Lenawee Chamber Foundation$54,000314%
Michigan State University$40,0005n/a
University of Michigan$27,00053%
Dexter Wrestling United$22,0001n/a
Jackson College$14,0004n/a
Siena Heights University$14,00030%
Indiana University School of Medicine$11,2503n/a
Loyola Marymount University$10,00010%
Utah State University$8,7504n/a
Habitat for Humanity$6,00012%
Grand Valley State University$6,0002n/a
Flagler College Inc$5,00020%
Wolakota Youth Programs$5,0001n/a
Chapman University$5,00020%
Liberty University Inc$5,00010%
Madonna University$5,00040%
Manitou Beach Historic Renovation Society$5,00013%
Spring Arbor University$4,00020%
Marymount Manhattan College$4,00010%
Linfield University$3,00010%
Molloy University$3,00010%
Case Western Reserve University$3,00010%
Azusa Pacific University$2,50010%
Belmont University$2,00010%
Western Michigan University$2,0001n/a
University of Detroit Mercy$2,00010%

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($482k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert B Westfall Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAdrian College: $81,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLenawee Chamber Foundation: $54,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $27,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSiena Heights University: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFlagler College Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChapman University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna University: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManitou Beach Historic Renovation Society: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSpring Arbor University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarymount Manhattan College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMolloy University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Detroit Mercy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Consumers Energy FoundationMI17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Michigan Colleges Alliance · Myer & Lois Franklin Charitable Tr · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Sage Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Robert B Westfall Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert B Westfall Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robert B Westfall Foundation

How much does Robert B Westfall Foundation give?
Robert B Westfall Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $134,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert B Westfall Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (85%), Community Improvement (6%), Health (3%).
Who are Robert B Westfall Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Adrian College ($82k), Lenawee Chamber Foundation ($54k), Michigan State University ($40k).
Does Robert B Westfall Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert B Westfall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert B Westfall Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, The Alvin L Glick Foundation, Michigan Colleges Alliance.
Where is Robert B Westfall Foundation based?
Robert B Westfall Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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