· Private foundation
The Westerman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EUGENE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SAINT CECILIA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LAREDO | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH | $50,000 |
| ST EUGENE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MOUNT ST SCHOLASTICA | $45,000 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| JAMES L COLLINS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $41,000 |
| ST BENEDICT'S ABBEY | $40,000 |
| MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| SAINT CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL | $36,200 |
| ST BENILDE SCHOOL METAIRIE | $34,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL INDIAN SCHOOL | $32,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $944k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
130 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- DCDonnelly College6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +66%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LAS CRUCES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +53%
- CCCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MARY OF CARMEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $45k
- FVFATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +124%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA DIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLESone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Catholic charities alleviates poverty & builds strong families through numerous programs: homeless shelter, domestic violence shelter, adult day services program, food pantry, counseling.
Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Inspired by the gospel of the beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…
Helping our community's most vulnerable with solutions that permanently improve lives. we serve people of all faiths, backgrounds, and abilities with more than 20 programs in a service area covering 67,000 square miles.
St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities exists to affirm the dignity of and respect for all human life by assisting individuals and families in need to achieve empowerment and self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to serve christ by accompanying individuals, families, and communities with compassion, support, and resources as they move from hardship to stability with dignity.
For more than 100 years, catholic charities of the diocese of des moines has been committed to transforming lives through service, guided by the core principles of catholic social teaching. our mission - to provide family-centered services…
Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Catholic charities atlanta (cca), provides supportive services that enable families to overcome barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. 87% of clients are low income. cca ensures that vulnerable individuals can attain economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lillian Vallely School Inc. 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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 318 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES- DIOCESE OF TYLER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LAS CRUCES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
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: Koch Foundation Inc · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Strake Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Bar Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation
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 The Westerman 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.
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
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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