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West Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$413k
Granted FY2022
60
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2025.

Youth Development$141kRecreation & Sports$134kHuman Services$112kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kEducation$64kArts & Culture$54kHousing & Shelter$43kAnimals$41kOther$0
02FY2022 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k42 grants · $197k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $217k
$5,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JPR FOUNDATION$30,000
JACKSON COUNTY FAIR BOARD$15,000
NORTH VALLEY KNIGHTS BOOSTER CLUB$15,000
ASHLAND LITTLE LEAGUE$13,328
JACKSON COUNTY 4H & FFA JUNIOR LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMMITTEE$12,168
JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 549C$10,500
JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 6$10,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYROGUE VALLEY$10,020
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ROGUE VALLEY$10,000
PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON$10,000
JOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES$10,000
SPARTAN BOXING CLUB$10,000
YOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES$10,000
FRIENDS OF COUNTRY LIVING$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%GOLD BEACH SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL -OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 18%COMPASS HOUSE INC: $8k → 13%WILDERNESS TRAILS INC: $8k → 13%WILDERNESS TRAILS INC: $6k → 13%JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 13%DAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS: $10k → 13%DAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS: $8k → 13%SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $8k → 13%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $8k → 13%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $5k → 13%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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 24 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
34

Total granted

$405k
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • KU
    KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON
    2× · 2021–2022 · $37k · revenue +7%
  • SB
    SPARTAN BOXING CLUB
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +113%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALVARY CHURCH DBA RELEVANT CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • CO
    COUNTY OF JACKSON PHOENIX SCHOOL DIST #4
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • PB
    PEOPLE'S BANK OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -95%

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
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
2
Central Oregon Villages

Central oregon villages mission is to advocate for and provide safe and secure shelter, housing and related services in central oreogn for the unhoused populations or at risk of becoming unhoused.

Housing & Shelter
3
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…

Animals
4
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
5
Home Share Oregon

To connect homeowners with a spare bedroom to rent and home seekers in need of affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Oregon Trail of Hope

To address the diverse needs of the homeless population in portland, oregon, collaborate with organizations charged with addressing the needs of the homeless in the city and surrounding areas, and inform the public of the nature, extent…

Human Services
7
Oregon Dog Rescue

Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue

Animals
8
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
9
Rg Rotary Foundation

RG Rotary Foundation is the charitable arm of the Rogue Gateway Rotary Club with the purpose of funding grants and other activities for charitable and educational services primarily in Josephine County, Oregon.

Community Improvement
10
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
11
Restoration House Inc

Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…

Health
12
Josie S Misfit Ranch

Josies Misfit Ranch is a volunteer and foster home based rescue that cares and advocates for misfit animals in Kittitas County and surrounding areas. Misfit animals are wounded in body or spirit who have been discarded, mistreated or…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is People's Bank of Commerce Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%15%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%21%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr15%8%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
12%
201/1,720

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
35/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 549C — $36,800 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 549CCALVARY CHURCH DBA RELEVANT CHURCH — $35,000 · OtherCALVARY CHURCH DBA RELEVANT CHURCHCOUNTY OF JACKSON PHOENIX SCHOOL DIST #4 — $30,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF JACKSON PHOENIX SCHOOL DIST #4THE SALVATION ARMY- MEDFORD CORPS — $25,000 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY 4H & FFA JUNIOR LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMMITTEE — $17,668 · OtherCROSS THE DIVIDE — $27,020 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY — $20,020 · Other+48 more — $315,315 · Other+48 moreDAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS — $18,119 · Human ServicesDAVIDS CHA…WILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $13,350 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS…HEARTS WITH A MISSION — $12,500 · Human ServicesHEARTS WIT…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DIST COUNCIL — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF…COMPASS HOUSE INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS HO…SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE — $7,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN O…JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOOD BANK — $7,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHINE …JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesJACKSONVIL…GOLD BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGOLD BEACH…KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON — $37,303 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS UNLIM…YOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH 71FI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…JOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOE'S PLAC…MASLOW PROJECT — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMASLOW PRO…North Valley Knights Booster Club — $31,029 · EducationNorth Val…JPR FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationJPR FOUND…Brookings Harbor Education Foundation — $6,487 · EducationBrookings…GREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $4,400 · EducationGREATER A…SMART READING — $2,500 · EducationWALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $32,500 · ReligionSPARROW CLUBS USA — $12,260 · ReligionKLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION — $5,000 · ReligionHOPE RANCH YOUTH PROGRAM INC — $5,000 · ReligionSPARTAN BOXING CLUB — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsASHLAND LITTLE LEAGUE — $13,328 · Recreation & SportsPEAR BLOSSOM FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $5,250 · Recreation & SportsUPPER ROGUE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE'S BANK OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyJOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $14,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC — $4,068 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$506,823Human Services$86,469Youth Development$84,803Education$74,416Religion$54,760Recreation & Sports$46,578Philanthropy$41,068

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON — $37,303 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $32,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNorth Valley Knights Booster Club — $31,029 over 1y, 12% of budgetJPR FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROSS THE DIVIDE — $27,020 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSPARTAN BOXING CLUB — $25,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY — $20,020 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEOPLE'S BANK OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS — $18,119 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWILDLIFE IMAGES REHABILITATION & EDUCATION — $14,065 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $13,350 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetASHLAND LITTLE LEAGUE — $13,328 over 1y, 25% of budgetHEARTS WITH A MISSION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARROW CLUBS USA — $12,260 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROGUE RETREAT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DIST COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetJOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMASLOW PROJECT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHINE COUNTY FOOD BANK — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBrookings Harbor Education Foundation — $6,487 over 1y, 21% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $6,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe CREST — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPEAR BLOSSOM FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $5,250 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetJACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLD BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKAIROS NORTHWEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE RANCH YOUTH PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPETER BRITT GARDENS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER — $4,978 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROSSING BRIDGES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $4,400 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC — $4,068 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSS RAGLAND THEATER AND CULTURAL C — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUPPER ROGUE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTRAL POINT ROTARY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Carpenter Foundat…The Oregon Community …Robert and Frances Ch…Carrico Family Founda…The Ford Family Found…Arthur R Dubs Foundat…Four Way Community Fo…The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationJoe & Frances Naumes …Dutch Bros FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…
The Carpenter FoundationOR69× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Carpenter Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Robert and Frances Chaney Family Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Arthur R Dubs Foundation · Four Way Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust

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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Access — 65% of income from government
  • Klamath Advocacy Center — 60% of income from government
  • Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Hearts With a Mission — 51% of income from government
  • Butte Falls Community School Partnership — 38% of income from government
  • Greater Applegate Community Development — 26% of income from government
  • Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries — 16% of income from government
  • Rogue Retreat — 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C — 11% of income from government
  • Compass House Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Hope Equestrian Center — 3% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Josephine County Food Bank — 1% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice — 0% of income from government
  • Kairos Northwest — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 86 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $373k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines