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Westerstrom Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $25,000 |
| ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $13,200 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION -GEORGIA CHAPTER | $12,000 |
| THE ELAINE CLARK CENTER | $12,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER | $12,000 |
| THE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER | $12,000 |
| VISITING NURSE HEALTHHOSPICE OF ATLANTA | $12,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER | $12,000 |
| NO LONGER BOUND | $12,000 |
| SHEPHERD SPINAL CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $12,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - GEORGIA DIVISION | $12,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| SUNSHINE HOUSE REGIONAL CHILDREN'S CTR | $12,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TLTHE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +46%
- TGTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +38%
Cure Childhood Cancer Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION -GEORGIA CHAPTERone grant, 2025 · $12k
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.
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…
Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To facilitate health and recovery for persons affected by alcoholism and other drug addiction through a comprehensive array of services, including residential and outpatient treatment, therapeutic daycare, parenting, detoxification, and…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Cure Childhood Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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
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 Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELAINE CLARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
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.
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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 Westerstrom Charitable Trust 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.
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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