· Private foundation
The Westfield Insurance Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k240 grants · $748k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $733k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $713k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | $500,000 |
| PGA Tour Inc | $100,000 |
| Akron Urban League | $79,917 |
| The Spanish American Committee | $77,000 |
| Smart Development | $75,000 |
| American Red Cross of Northeast Ohio | $75,000 |
| United Way of Summit and Medina | $75,000 |
| United Way of Summit and Medina | $71,210 |
| Team NEO Foundation | $60,000 |
| Friends of Medina County Parks Inc | $50,000 |
| Westfield Fire and Rescue | $50,000 |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $48,050 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $44,368 |
| Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation | $40,000 |
| Fund for Our Economic Future | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
272 repeat relationships — 154 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 120 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
- SASpanish American Committee5× · 2020–2024 · $533k · revenue +52%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +1%
- FFFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO5× · 2020–2024 · $360k · revenue +225%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +40%- FLFarmers' Legal Action Group Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +127% · 35% of their budget
- KFKINDRED FUTURES INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +5%
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.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Jordans Joy. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
744 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. 744 of the 946 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds Spanish American Committee ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Team NEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SMART DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds GAMMA IOTA SIGMA ↗
- Who funds Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Medina County Parks Inc ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE PHEBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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: Firstenergy Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The George Gund Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Community West Foundation · Feeding America
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 Westfield Insurance 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Osceola County Council on Aging Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Her Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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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