How much does Wescom Foundation give?

Wescom Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,059,481, out of $1,197,579 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wescom Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (10%).

Who are Wescom Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Miracle Network ($704k), Union Station Homeless Services ($192k), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($165k).

Does Wescom Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wescom Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.

Where is Wescom Foundation based?

Wescom Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Wescom Foundation

To help improve the lives and living conditions of all californians by supporting nonprofit community organizations through strategic grantmaking and community engagement.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 39
Itemized grants FY2024: 26
Organizations funded FY2023: 27%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $12,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $169,130
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 26; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $406k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Wescom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	37	$986k	46%
FY2023	26	$883k	27%
FY2022	23	$655k	48%
FY2021	17	$649k	24%
FY2020	21	$277k	71%
FY2018	13	$122k	38%
FY2017	14	$142k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.0MFood & Nutrition$669kEducation$400kHousing & Shelter$376kInternational$362kHuman Services$353kPhilanthropy$189kYouth Development$158kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children's Miracle Network	$703,829	7	1%
Union Station Homeless Services	$191,500	5	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$164,780	6	0%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$152,302	5	0%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc	$145,912	5	0%
Thomas House Temporary Shelter	$139,745	4	4%
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties	$127,237	5	0%
Legacy Connections	$126,000	1	3%
Food Share Inc	$124,737	5	0%
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity	$102,495	5	0%

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All grantees of Wescom Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children's Miracle Network	$703,829	7	1%
Union Station Homeless Services	$191,500	5	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$164,780	6	0%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$152,302	5	0%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc	$145,912	5	0%
Thomas House Temporary Shelter	$139,745	4	4%
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties	$127,237	5	0%
Legacy Connections	$126,000	1	3%
Food Share Inc	$124,737	5	0%
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity	$102,495	5	0%
A Place Called Home	$101,150	5	0%
International Committee of the Red Cross	$99,564	2	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$99,564	2	0%
United States Association for UNHCR	$99,564	2	0%
House of Ruth Inc	$95,995	5	1%
Regents of the University of California	$93,605	2	n/a
Maui Food Bank Inc	$76,961	1	1%
National Credit Union Foundation	$76,961	1	1%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$68,643	4	0%
The Arc Los Angeles & Orange Counties	$61,500	6	0%
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc	$53,509	1	1%
School on Wheels Inc	$45,352	1	2%
Community Partners	$32,675	2	0%
The Unforgettables Foundation	$32,400	3	3%
Choc Foundation	$32,085	4	0%
Black Women for Wellness	$28,000	3	0%
Todec Legal Center Perris	$28,000	3	0%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy	$28,000	3	0%
California Fire Foundation	$27,209	1	1%
Flying Crown Land Group	$25,000	1	0%
Fifty-Fifty Leadership Inc	$23,500	2	n/a
Inland Southern California United Way	$22,209	1	0%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$21,500	2	0%
Angel City Pit Bulls	$20,625	2	3%
House of Ruth	$20,145	2	0%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc	$20,050	2	0%
Youth Action Project Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Equality California Institute	$19,000	2	0%
Korean Resource Center Inc	$18,000	2	1%
Food Bank for Monterey County	$12,860	1	0%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association	$12,500	1	0%
Southern California Mountains Foundation	$12,500	1	0%
International Trade Education Programs Inc Dba Exp	$12,500	1	1%
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator	$12,500	1	0%
Time For Change Foundation	$12,500	1	0%
Dragg Inc	$12,500	1	13%
Orange County Conservation Corps	$12,500	1	0%
United Way of Monterey County	$12,500	1	0%
Cielo Community for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership	$12,500	1	1%
Los Angeles Conservation Corps	$12,500	1	0%
Abilityfirst	$12,000	1	0%
Rancho Cielo Inc	$10,995	1	0%
Foothill Family Service	$10,500	2	0%
Food Finders Inc	$10,500	1	0%
Asociacion de Ejecutivos de Cooperativas de Puerto Rico Inc	$10,000	1	4%
A World Fit for Kids	$10,000	1	0%
Remote Area Medical	$10,000	1	0%
Koinonia Foster Homes Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Bettertogether Forever	$10,000	1	1%
Americares Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
New Horizons Service Dogs	$10,000	1	4%
Diamond in the Raw	$10,000	1	8%
Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children	$10,000	1	1%
For the Troops	$10,000	1	0%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment	$9,000	1	0%
L a Works Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Social Justice Learning Institute	$8,000	1	0%
Friends of the Miracle Mile	$7,500	1	n/a
Onelegacy	$7,000	1	0%
East la Community Corporation	$6,000	1	0%
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center	$6,000	1	0%
Westside Food Bank	$5,750	1	0%
Avenues of Life	$5,655	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wescom Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA34.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · Orange County Community Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Sempra 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.

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About Wescom Foundation

How much does Wescom Foundation give?: Wescom Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,059,481, out of $1,197,579 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wescom Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (10%).
Who are Wescom Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Miracle Network ($704k), Union Station Homeless Services ($192k), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($165k).
Does Wescom Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wescom Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
Where is Wescom Foundation based?: Wescom Foundation is based in CA.