Indiana · Private foundation
The West Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $291k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The West Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $291k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $263k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $293k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $256k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $223k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $122k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trickle Up Program Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Technoserve Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hesperian Health Guides | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Visionspring Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Companion Community Development Alternatives Inc | $60,178 | 6 | 6% |
| Floresta USA Incorporated | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ubuntu Pathways Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cooperative for Education | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Smiles Forever | $60,000 | 6 | 27% |
| Mothers2mothers United States Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The West Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The West Foundation Inc
- How much does The West Foundation Inc give?
- The West Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $290,678 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The West Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (63%), Health (15%), Education (6%).
- Who are The West Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trickle Up Program Inc ($105k), Technoserve Inc ($80k), Hesperian Health Guides ($75k).
- Does The West Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The West Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The West Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation, Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation), Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The West Foundation Inc based?
- The West Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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