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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE | $10,717 |
| HEALING HEARTS CHANGING MINDS | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF NORTHRIDGE | $6,000 |
| ADOPT FIRE STATION #71 | $6,000 |
| INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FU | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $5,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAPS | $5,000 |
| FIRESIDE PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| ALCHEMY COMMUNITY THERAPY CENTER | $5,000 |
| OPEN MIND COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| LIMINA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| 1440 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 18 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +213%
- SDSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +41%
- AFADOPT FIRE STATION 713× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue ×14 · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- TBTEDDY BEAR FILMS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- RRECONSIDERone grant, 2023 · $26k
- PCPitzer Collegeone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.
One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
The Deep Medicine Circle is a nonprofit organization dedicated to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. Starting from a place of correcting relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gelson's Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
68 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. 68 of the 124 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds ADOPT FIRE STATION 71 ↗
- Who funds Shulgin Farm ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE 1440 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MOVEMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEARTS CHANGING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Environmental Traveling Companions ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Upper Midwest Great Dane Rescue ↗
- Who funds Fireside Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds House of 42 ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OPEN MIND COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alchemy Community Therapy Center ↗
- Who funds WONDERLAND PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · Riverstyx Foundation · Threshold Foundation · Daffy Charitable Fund · The San Diego Foundation · Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc · Obermayer Foundation Inc
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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