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West Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$436kEducation$288kHealth$49kHuman Services$34kFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150,000
GEORGIANNA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
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 (FY20–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 12%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $10k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $10k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $10k → 10%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$704k · 9 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$704k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+129%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • AT
    ALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +58%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY
    2× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +24%
  • MC
    Maryville City Schools Foundation Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $11k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PS
    PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +218%
  • BM
    BLOUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • MC
    MARYVILLE COLLEGECLAYTON CTR
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
2
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
United Way of South Central Tennessee

The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.

—
4
Blount County Education Foundation

To provide direct support for the benefit of blount county, tennessee schools

—
5
Hamilton County Schools Fund for Excellence

To improve the quality of the educational experience in the hamilton county schools by providing support in the form of fundraising opportunities, recognition awards, and other charitable programs.

Education
6
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc

The community foundation is a philanthropic organization that manages charitable funds with a broad base of donors to benefit the areas of western tennessee, eastern arkansas, and northern mississippi. since 1969, the community foundation…

Philanthropy
8
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

—
9
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
Chattanooga State Community College Foundation

To benefit and carry out the educational purposes of chattanooga state community college.

Education
12
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Blount County; the most unlike its peers is Blount Memorial 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

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $330,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHPELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $158,400 · OtherPELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEGEORGIANNA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $103,000 · OtherGEORGIANNA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH+8 more: $50,800 · Other+8 morePELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationPELLISSIPPI STA…MARYVILLE COLLEGE: $18,400 · EducationMARYVILLE COLLE…ALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthGOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMaryville City Schools Foundation Inc: $10,600 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN BALLET COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPASSION COUNSELING: $3,000 · Religion
Other$642,200Education$118,400Health$40,000Human Services$30,100Philanthropy$25,600Arts & Culture$10,000Religion$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE: $18,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaryville City Schools Foundation Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBLOUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN BALLET COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION COUNSELING: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

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.

East Tennessee Founda…Haslam Family Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …The Clayton Homes Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Tennessee FoundationTN21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to West Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to West Foundation Inc 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 21 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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