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Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20212025.

Education$300kArts & Culture$270kReligion$121kFood & Nutrition$120kHousing & Shelter$90kHuman Services$62kEmployment$53kHealth$30kYouth Development$4kOther$563k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ECU FOUNDATION INC$60,000
LIVES OF PURPOSE INC$46,643
SOUTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL$38,000
STRAIGHTWAY CHURCH$32,500
NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES$30,000
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC$25,000
AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA$22,500
COMMUNITY FEEDING OUR CHILDREN$17,750
HOPE OF GLORY MINISTRIES$15,000
CARENET COUNSELING EAST$15,000
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEMS$15,000
BUILDING HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE CTR$4,734
CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS$2,463
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $20k → 20%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $17k → 20%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $15k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

85%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +25%
  • EG
    Emerge Gallery Art Center Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $153k · revenue +8%
  • GM
    GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $92k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • GM
    GRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -30%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Pitt County INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -38%
  • AF
    ACES FOR AUTISM
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
3
Preservation Greensboro Inc

Build thriving communities by protecting and renewing our history and architectural treasures.

Arts & Culture
4
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
5
The Center for Disordered Eating dba Carolina Resource Center for Eating

Developing and connecting resources to assist and advocate for those impacted by eating disorders.

Health
6
The Children's Center of Western North Carolina

At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.

Human Services
7
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
8
Carolina Community Impact Inc

Carolina community impact, inc. (cci) is a non-profit organization that provides access to credit and asset-building techniques for individuals and small businesses. our mission is to promote economic and community development by providing…

Human Services
9
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
10
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
11
Standup-Speakout of North Carolina

To empower individuals we serve by providing advocacy and therapeutic support through art therapy for children and teens who are victims or witnesses to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Human Services
12
The Greenville Community Shelters

To serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness by providing safe housing and assisting them in developing a long-term plan that leads to self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lives of Purpose 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTRAIGHTWAY CHURCH — $79,380 · OtherSTRAIGHTWAY CHURCHHabitat for Humanity of Pitt County INC — $50,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Pitt County INCSOUTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL — $38,000 · OtherSOUTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLNC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COASTAL PLAIN — $25,000 · OtherA TIME FOR SCIENCE — $25,000 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $22,500 · OtherLives of Purpose Inc — $53,297 · OtherLives of Purpose IncACES FOR AUTISM — $30,000 · Other+11 more — $122,213 · Other+11 moreEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · EducationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERS…Emerge Gallery Art Center Inc — $152,500 · Arts & CultureEmerge Gallery Art…GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $92,203 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE MUSEUM …NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYM…Hope of Glory Ministries Inc — $85,000 · ReligionThird Street Education Center Inc — $35,900 · ReligionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $120,000 · Food & NutritionGRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCARENET COUNSELING EAST — $52,000 · Human ServicesBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc — $9,530 · Human Services
Other$650,390Education$300,000Arts & Culture$269,703Religion$120,900Food & Nutrition$120,000Housing & Shelter$90,000Human Services$61,530

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEmerge Gallery Art Center Inc — $152,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $92,203 over 2y, 12% of budgetHope of Glory Ministries Inc — $85,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLives of Purpose Inc — $53,297 over 3y, 16% of budgetCARENET COUNSELING EAST — $52,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Pitt County INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThird Street Education Center Inc — $35,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetACES FOR AUTISM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc — $9,530 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOperation Sunshine Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $2,463 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Mildred Sheffield Wells Char TrustNC32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust · James J & Mamie Richardson Perkins Memorial Fund - C/O Bank of America · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Bill and Faye Stallings Family Foundation · Dennis & Jennie Hendrix Foundation · Camber 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 Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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