Delaware · Private foundation
Westly Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Westly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $1.2M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $885k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $987k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $830k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $973k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kqed Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kind Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Initiatives | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central California Food Bank | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| College Possible Inc | $101,250 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Westly Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
About Westly Foundation
- How much does Westly Foundation give?
- Westly Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $1,158,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Westly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Westly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kqed Inc ($375k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($300k), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($260k).
- Does Westly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Westly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Westly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Atkinson Foundation.
- Where is Westly Foundation based?
- Westly Foundation is based in DE.
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