· Private foundation
The Westlake Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIELDS & STRIPES | $15,000 |
| THE FUND OF AMERICAN STUDIES | $7,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $5,550 |
| A PLACE TO BE | $5,250 |
| VETERANS ADVOCACY SERVICES | $5,250 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT | $5,250 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $5,250 |
| WOMEN GIVING BACK | $5,000 |
| A FARM LESS ORDINARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $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 (FY19–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +80% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SASHIELDS AND STRIPES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +163%
- TFTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +80%
- AFA FARM LESS ORDINARY4× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- UAU AND D JESUITone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GCGONZAGA COLLEGE HSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LILINK INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -17%
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.
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To advance knowledge and facilitate research of the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
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Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Advocacy Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 SHIELDS AND STRIPES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL LYME DISEASE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
- Who funds Women Giving Back Inc ↗
- Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Border Patrol Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHOOTING TOUCH INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY 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: Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Westlake 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor 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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