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West End Bank Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$550k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Education$225kArts & Culture$209kYouth Development$206kHealth$154kEnvironment$43kFood & Nutrition$30kPublic Benefit$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$100,000
REID HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
EVERY CHILD CAN READ$100,000
RICHMOND ART MUSEUM$50,000
RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
RICHMOND ROSE GARDEN$25,000
CIRCLE U HELP CENTER$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EVERY CHILD CAN READ: $100k → 18%MAIN STREET RICHMOND - WAYNE COUNTY: $100k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $100k → 18%REID HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 18%RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $50k → 18%RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD RESTORATION: $25k → 18%CIRCLE U HELP CENTER: $25k → 18%RICHMOND PARKS DEPARTMENT (WAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION): $25k → 18%RICHMOND ROSE GARDEN: $25k → 18%GIRLS INC OF WAYNE COUNTY: $25k → 18%EVERY CHILD CAN READ: $20k → 18%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST: $20k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST: $20k → 18%WAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $17k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $17k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $17k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $17k → 18%REID HEALTH: $15k → 18%REID HEALTH: $14k → 18%REID HEALTH: $14k → 18%RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13k → 18%RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13k → 18%RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $12k → 18%REID HEALTH: $11k → 18%WAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $10k → 18%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL - WAYNE COUNTY: $10k → 18%EVERY CHILD CAN READ: $10k → 18%RICHMOND ROSE GARDEN: $10k → 18%EVERY CHILD CAN READ: $10k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $10k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $9k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $9k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $9k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $9k → 18%COPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $8k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $8k → 18%CIRCLE U HELP CENTER: $5k → 18%SETON CATHOLIC: $5k → 18%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%RHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $3k → 18%RICHMOND ART MUSEUM: $3k → 18%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$744k · 10 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$744k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+32%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RA
    RICHMOND ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $119k · revenue +63%
  • RS
    RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +85%
  • CY
    CIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • RN
    RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD RESTORATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -339% · 50% of their budget
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • RP
    RICHMOND PARKS DEPARTMENT (WAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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
Richmond Elementary School Inc

The charter school will provide all students, no matter what their circumstances, rigorous education programs and adequate social support, to become well educated and productive community members.

Education
2
Richmond Civic Theatre Inc

Creating live community theatre experiences that engage, entertain, educate, and enlighten.

Arts & Culture
3
Community Christian School of Richmond in Inc

The principal purpose of community chrisitian school of richmond, in, inc. is to provide a program of education in a positive chrisitian atmosphere offering regular courses of study.

Education
4
Richmond Christian School Inc

Richmond Christian School exists to support families in their Biblical responsibility to nurture and train their children. Thus, Richmond Christian School provides opportunities which allow students to realize their God-given potential.

Education
5
Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture
6
Richmond Primary School

Build a strong social, emotional, spiritual and academic foundation!

Education
7
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
8
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
9
Richmond Montessori School Inc

To provide an education for children ranging from age 18 months to 14 based on montessori philosophy.

10
Wayne County Historical Museum Inc

To educate, promote, collect, preserve, and interpret the rich heritage of wayne county, indiana, and illustrate the county's role in american and world culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Riverside Arts Center

Through free exhibitions, arts education and life-long learning for all ages, rac is an advocate for the vital role the arts play in nurturing community, amplifying diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.

Arts & Culture
12
Indiana Innovation Council Inc

Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circle You Help Center 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $180,850 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREID HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherREID HEALTH FOUNDATIONREID HEALTH — $54,096 · OtherREID HEALTHIndiana University School of Medicine — $40,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineRICHMOND ROSE GARDEN — $35,000 · OtherRICHMOND ROSE GARDENWAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY — $25,000 · OtherRICHMOND PARKS DEPARTMENT (WAYNE COUNTY FOUNDATION) — $25,000 · Other+4 more — $28,334 · OtherRICHMOND ART MUSEUM — $118,880 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND ART MUSEUMRICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $89,760 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCH…EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC — $140,000 · EducationEVERY CHILD CAN R…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATI…CIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionRICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD RESTORATION INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$618,280Arts & Culture$208,640Education$165,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEVERY CHILD CAN READ INC — $140,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetRICHMOND ART MUSEUM — $118,880 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetRICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $89,760 over 4y, 11% of budgetCIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD RESTORATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCOPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $8,334 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

  • Who funds EVERY CHILD CAN READ INC
  • Who funds RICHMOND ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds CIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD RESTORATION INC
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY
  • Who funds COPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER

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.

The Paul W Lingle Family FoundationIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Paul W Lingle Family Foundation · First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · Quigg Fund Inc · The Stamm Koechlein Family Foundation co Monica Koechlein · Wayne County Indiana Foundation Inc · United Way of Whitewater Valley 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 West End Bank Charitable Foundation 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to West End Bank Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to West End Bank Charitable Foundation 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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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