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Westcott Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$119kCivil Rights$100kArts & Culture$65kHealth$37kHuman Services$29kAnimals$26kRecreation & Sports$24kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$611k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE$50,000
AMERICAN MOME FUNDRAISING$10,000
FASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL OF DALLAS ( DIFFA)$9,750
CATTLE BARON'S BALL$7,033
MCCULLOCH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHIGHLAND PARK SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GREENHILL SCHOOL$2,000
NORTH TEXAS GIVING DAY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WOMEN'S COUNCIL DALLAS ARBORETUM$500
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $50k → 8%NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $50k → 8%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 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

WA
WY
CA
KS
TN
DC
MS
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$222k · 13 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
38

Total granted

$222k
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+13%

Still filing today

31%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • GS
    GREENHILL SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • DF
    DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -94%
  • HN
    HUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • CO
    Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abusegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +43%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
4
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
5
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
10
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill School; the most unlike its peers is Sadie Keller 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

21 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. 21 of the 56 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPICATTLE BARON'S BALL: $14,393 · OtherCATTLE BARON'S BALLMCCULLOCH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHIGHLAND PARK SCHOOL: $12,500 · OtherMCCULLOCH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHIGHLAND PARK SCHOOLFASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL OF DALLAS ( DIFFA): $10,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN MOME FUNDRAISING: $10,000 · OtherMCCULLOCH INTERMEDIAT SCHOOLHIGHLAND PARK SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTHE MARATHON INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Other+33 more: $79,268 · Other+33 moreNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesGREENHILL SCHOOL: $24,500 · EducationGREENHILL S…OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · EducationOAKLAND SCH…Rhodes College: $7,500 · EducationRhodes Coll…Millsaps College: $2,500 · EducationMillsaps Co…Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $25,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $734 · HealthHUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,400 · PhilanthropyPOLO TRAINING CENTER SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$221,911Human Services$103,500Education$44,500Health$28,234Animals$25,000Philanthropy$15,400Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENHILL SCHOOL: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLO TRAINING CENTER SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE MARATHON INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRhodes College: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDec My Room Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Family Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMillsaps College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSadie Keller Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $234 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $200 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 NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
  • Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds POLO TRAINING CENTER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds THE MARATHON INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Rhodes College ↗
  • Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds Millsaps College ↗
  • Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Verizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Westcott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westcott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Westcott Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Westcott 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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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