· Private foundation
West Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $10,000 |
| THE IOWA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,788 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| CITY OF CORALVILLE | $4,000 |
| BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| ORCHESTRA IOWA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $2,500 |
| NAMM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE ENGLERT THEATRE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of West Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +21%
- OIORCHESTRA IOWA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +12%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- WMWEST MUSIC COMPANY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TETHE ENGLERT THEATERone grant, 2018 · $8k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The Northeast Iowa School of Music (NISOM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the greater Tri-State area community by meeting the music education and enrichment needs of people of all ages and…
The indianapolis chamber orchestra advances and promotes music composed for the small orchestra through professional performances and education programs.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission of cma is to engage, enrich and educate the central iowa community through provocative, world-class musical performances by legends and rising stars. cma is governed by a volunteer board of directors and has an annual operating…
The des moines symphony is a not-for-profit, professional orchestra formed in 1937 to enrich, educate, and inspire the community by performing great orchestral music. the symphony association, governed by a volunteer board of trustees and…
The mission of the Fresno Philharmonic is to enrich the lives of Central San Joaquin Valley residents through inspiring performances of orchestral music. We are an essential and collaborative member of a vibrant arts scene which unites,…
We bring people, communities, and cultures together through performance, the creation of new choral works, outreach, and education in indianapolis and beyond.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds IOWA ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Johnson County · GreenState Credit Union · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Gary Wicklund Family Foundation · Dne Caplan Family Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization West Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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