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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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$364kArts & Culture$184kHealth$143kEducation$109kAnimals$84kReligion$53kHuman Services$51kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$3,200
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
1440 FOUNDATION$5,000
CONCERN FOUNDATION$5,000
WONDERLAND PROJECT$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$5,000
MAPS$5,000
EARTH CODES OBSERVATORY$5,000
ALCHEMY COMMUNITY THERAPY CENTER$5,000
LIMINA FOUNDATION$5,000
INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FU$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WONDERLAND PROJECT: $5k → 10%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $3k → 14%REIMAGINE INC: $1k → 10%REIMAGINE INC: $1k → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
OR
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 38 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
65

Total granted

$421k
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +213%
  • SD
    SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +41%
  • AF
    ADOPT FIRE STATION 71
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue ×14 · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    TEDDY BEAR FILMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • R
    RECONSIDER
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • PC
    Pitzer College
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
San Francisco Green Film Festival

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.

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6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health
7
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
8
Climate Imperative Foundation

Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.

Environment
9
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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10
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
11
California Institute for BioMedical Research

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…

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12
Deep Medicine Circle

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/68
Grantees still filing
37/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $339,550 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCONCERN FOUNDATION: $31,500 · PhilanthropyCONCERN FOUNDATION+7 more: $43,500 · Philanthropy+7 moreTEDDY BEAR FILMS INC: $50,000 · OtherTEDDY BEAR FILMS INCCHABAD OF NORTHRIDGE: $36,000 · OtherCHABAD OF NORTHRIDGERECONSIDER: $26,000 · OtherRECONSIDERWELDON COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,500 · OtherWELDON COMMUNITY CENTERMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOC PSYCHEDLIC: $15,000 · Other+73 more: $213,285 · Other+73 moreSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $35,500 · EducationSAN DOMENI…Pitzer College: $25,000 · EducationPitzer Col…POMONA COLLEGE: $9,000 · EducationPOMONA COL…Earth Codes Observatory Inc: $5,000 · EducationSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationChacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: $4,500 · Education+10 more: $22,000 · Education+10 moreACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY M…Shulgin Farm: $12,500 · Arts & CultureShulgin F…CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $10,717 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNI…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED…SONOMA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL: $5,300 · Arts & CultureSONOMA VA…CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,720 · Arts & Culture+4 moreASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $56,000 · AnimalsUpper Midwest Great Dane Rescue: $8,000 · AnimalsTHE MOVEMENT NETWORK: $10,000 · HealthFireside Project Inc: $7,500 · HealthOPEN MIND COLLECTIVE: $5,000 · HealthAlchemy Community Therapy Center: $5,000 · HealthTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,650 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthADOPT FIRE STATION 71: $21,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$414,550Other$365,785Education$106,000Arts & Culture$94,737Animals$64,000Health$35,150Community Improvement$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $339,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $35,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPitzer College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT FIRE STATION 71: $21,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetShulgin Farm: $12,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHEALING HEARTS CHANGING MINDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE 1440 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions: $9,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Midwest Great Dane Rescue: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFireside Project Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of 42: $5,400 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL: $5,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWONDERLAND PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN MIND COLLECTIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetExtrafood: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGELSON'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZero Line Logistics: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $3,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClarke County Animal Shelter: $3,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPlanting Justice: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREIMAGINE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $1,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 MOVEMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HEALING HEARTS CHANGING MINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE 1440 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Traveling Companions ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • 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 Earth Codes Observatory Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WONDERLAND PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN MIND COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds Extrafood ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The Joe & Sandy Sambe…McNabb FoundationSteven & Alexandra Co…Riverstyx FoundationThreshold FoundationDaffy Charitable FundThe San Diego Foundat…Multidisciplinary Ass…Obermayer Foundation …
The San Francisco FoundationCA24.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to West Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to West Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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