· Private foundation
Thomas J West Family Char Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST PA MAN & EMP COUNCIL | $13,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER FOR | $6,000 |
| DOWNTOWN SHENANDOAH INC | $5,000 |
| POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| AVENUES FOUNDATION | $1,620 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN GRIDIRON CLUB | $1,500 |
| HILLSIDE SPCA | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FD | $1,000 |
| WALK IN ART CENTER | $967 |
| SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER | $500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $200 |
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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DSDowntown Shenandoah Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue ×14
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +12%- SCSCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- HAHAMBURG AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -55%
- COCIRCLE OF FRIENDSone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Shenandoah Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 Downtown Shenandoah Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WALK IN ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY 1 ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation · Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust · Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) · Anna C Bohorad Trust B · Herman Yudacufski Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Miles S & Anna Kiehner Memorial Trust Co Argent Trust Company · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 Thomas J West Family Char Trust 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.
- Oxfam-America 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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