· Private foundation
The West Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC | $20,000 |
| MOTHERS 2 MOTHERS | $17,500 |
| TRICKLE UP | $15,000 |
| HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES | $15,000 |
| COMPANION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES | $13,178 |
| BUILDING TOMORROW | $10,000 |
| GOODWEAVE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| PLANT WITH PURPOSE | $10,000 |
| H2O FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| NUTURING MINDS INC | $10,000 |
| SMILES FOREVER | $10,000 |
| VISIONSPRING | $10,000 |
| PROLITERACY | $10,000 |
| SHARED INTEREST | $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 (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of The West Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TUTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +49%
- TITECHNOSERVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%
- VIVISIONSPRING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 6560graduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +43%
- STST THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH OF HAITI COMMITTEEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OIOUTREACH INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water for South Sudan delivers direct, transformative and sustainable quality-of-life service to the people of South Sudan by efficiently providing access to clean, safe water and improving hygiene practices in areas of great need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is WILD4LIFE. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 44 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 TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES ↗
- Who funds VISIONSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SMILES FOREVER ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds SHARED INTEREST INC ↗
- Who funds MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds CARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Malembe Rise Inc ↗
- Who funds GoodWeave International ↗
- Who funds UPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES ↗
- Who funds H2O FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Digital Divide Data ↗
- Who funds BLUEENERGY ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 6560 ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Together Women Rise · Kathryn B McQuade Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Hampshire Foundation Inc · CG Charitable Fund · Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc · The Ray and Tye Noorda 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 The West Foundation Inc 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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