· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 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 FAMILIES RISING ↗
- Who funds JAM ANONYMOUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION 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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ronald West Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald West Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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