How much does Thomas J West Family Char Trust give?

Thomas J West Family Char Trust reported 28 grants totaling $43,787 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Thomas J West Family Char Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Community Improvement (15%).

Who are Thomas J West Family Char Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Downtown Shenandoah Inc ($33k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($30k), Schuylkill Chamber Foundation Inc ($23k).

Does Thomas J West Family Char Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Thomas J West Family Char Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas J West Family Char Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation, Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust, Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf).

Where is Thomas J West Family Char Trust based?

Thomas J West Family Char Trust is based in PA.

Thomas J West Family Char Trust

Thomas J West Family Char Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Thomas J West Family Char Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$14k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$109kPublic Safety & Disaster$86kCommunity Improvement$59kHealth$38kPhilanthropy$27kAnimals$24kPublic Benefit$13kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $30k
$10k–50k1 grant · $14k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$651k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$1,500
HILLSIDE SPCA	$1,500
CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION	$1,250
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FD	$1,000
WALK IN ART CENTER	$967
SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER	$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$383k · 40 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$383k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+29%

Still filing today

68%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

DS
Downtown Shenandoah Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue ×14
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +12%
SC
SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +51%

Funded once

HA
HAMBURG AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2019 · $5k
BM
BLUE MOUNTAIN YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -55%
CO
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
one grant, 2022 · $2k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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World Resources Institute

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…

International

Women's Refugee Commission Inc

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…

Human Services

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

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.

Environment

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

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…

Food & Nutrition

Refugees International Inc

Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International

World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

21/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$249,152Health$38,250Community Improvement$35,965Employment$23,359Human Services$23,189Animals$13,500Education$11,554

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Will S & Anna S Fox FoundationPA30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas J West Family Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas J West Family Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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