· Public charity
Russell Westbrook Why Not Foundation Inc
See schedule 0the mission of the foundation is to inspire the lives of childresn, empower them to ask "why not and teach them to never give up.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA PROMISE FUND | $1,250,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| DADDY BRUCE RANDOLPH LEGACY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +286% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLA PROMISE FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +54%
- TWTEAM WHY NOT5× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +474% · 96% of their budget
- CICOMP-U-DOPT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $169k · revenue +286%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -89%
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue -2%
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds TEAM WHY NOT ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds LEADERSUP ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DADDY BRUCE RANDOLPH LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Russell Westbrook Why Not Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell Westbrook Why Not Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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