· Private foundation
The Ronald West Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $17,100 |
| AVALON CENTER | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENC | $5,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA | $5,000 |
| WESLEY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| FISH INC | $800 |
| CASEY CARES FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- AAAVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +23%
- AAANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +141%
- WHWILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- WAWILLIAM AND MARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +79%
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 advocate for abused and neglected children through the service of trained volunteers who are ordered by the fairfax county juvenile and domestic relations district court to identify and safeguard the best interests of each child…
The virginia beach casa program is a private, non-private organization committed to advocating for the best interests of children involved in the juvenile and domestic relations district court process. the casa program recruits, trains and…
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
Advocate for abused and neglected children
Casa of central va, inc. recruits, trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court proceedings in the 24th judicial district and educates the community about the needs of these children.
Maryland casa facilitates the continued development and success of court appointed special advocate casa programs in maryland to help ensure that every abused and neglected child in the state has a safe, permanent home
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all with an emphasis on domestic violence and crisis intervention services.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jam Anonymous Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
- Who funds AVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FISH INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH RIVER YOUTH ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JAM ANONYMOUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES RISING ↗
- Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION 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: Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Dan and Micki Chapin Fund Inc · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Houff Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 The Ronald West Family 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, a single department, or state — 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.