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Westen 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$46kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$4kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$900Recreation & Sports$500Public Safety & Disaster$450Other$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$250
Median grant
9
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALISBURY SCHOOL$11,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$10,000
FISH OF GALESBURG$5,000
WESTERN ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$500
COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$300
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$250
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$250
THE DENVER POST SEASON TO SHARE$150
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$150
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$150
AMERICAN RED CROSS$150
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CO$150
02The need
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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 (FY23–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%FISH OF GALESBURG: $5k → 15%FISH OF GALESBURG: $250 → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $250 → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $250 → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $200 → 12%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 19 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$65k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+2%

Still filing today

68%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +37%
  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    FISH OF GALESBURG
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • VD
    VALOR DISCOVERY PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • BI
    BRIDGEWAY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +8%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
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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4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGESALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INC+3 more: $1,900 · EducationWESTERN ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherWESTERN ILLINOIS FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $5,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOVALOR DISCOVERY PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherVALOR DISCOVERY PROGRAMBRIDGEWAY INC: $2,500 · OtherBRIDGEWAY INCUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $1,500 · Other+12 more: $3,120 · Other+12 moreFISH OF GALESBURG: $5,250 · Human ServicesFISH OF G…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $700 · Human ServicesCLOTHES T…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450 · Human ServicesAmerican …FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $650 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $100 · Food & NutritionMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $450 · PhilanthropyTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC: $250 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $500 · Recreation & SportsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $450 · Health
Education$37,900Other$31,120Human Services$6,400Food & Nutrition$750Philanthropy$700Recreation & Sports$500Health$450

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFISH OF GALESBURG: $5,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBRIDGEWAY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTACT KIDS INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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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 Westen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 32 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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