· Public charity
The West Inc
Profits from the retail store, the west, are donated to qualifying exempt organizations under section 501c3 of the irc.
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.
The 5 grants below total $40,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $53,363 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,863 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS ADVOCA | $9,000 |
| ERIK HITE FOUND | $8,500 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS | $8,000 |
| MOBILE MEALS | $7,500 |
| EMERGE CENTER DV | $7,500 |
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +181% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SJSister Jose Women's Center2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +469%
- EHERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +181%
- NANATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- OFOUR FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $15k
- TNTU NIDITOone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUone grant, 2024 · $8k
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 provide resources to children in AZ DCS Custody
Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…
A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.
Promotes Safe Haven education and awareness on the existing Safe Haven Law in Arizona to prevent the illegal abandonment of infants across the state.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
Sedona Area Homeless Alliance is the primary source of services, information and personal support for the homeless community in the Sedona Arizona area and was established to fill the void of services.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Az Childrens Advocacy Ctr Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miracle Square Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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 Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds ERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHYANN KINDNESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN TOTES 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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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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