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Westly Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$840kEducation$766kFood & Nutrition$515kYouth Development$493kArts & Culture$454kCrime & Legal$375kHuman Services$293kCommunity Improvement$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $748k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$200,000
KQED INC$75,000
KIND INC$50,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$50,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$40,000
IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW$25,000
EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS AND TUTORING$25,000
CALIFORNIA HEALTH COLLABORATIVE$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA$25,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$25,000
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$25,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$25,000
CAREERVILLAGE INC$25,000
VISION TO LEARN$25,000
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR$25,000
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, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 22%HOLTZS HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $250 → 5%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $25k → 19%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $25k → 14%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $25k → 19%EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 19%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%CENTRAL VALLEY LATINO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $13k → 19%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

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Westly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Westly Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 32 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
61

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & 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

  • KI
    KQED INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +17%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +45%
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MH
    MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +1%
  • SAMARITAN HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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.

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Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
6
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
7
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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8
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
9
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
10
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
11
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley; the most unlike its peers is Team Awareness Combating Overdose(Taco) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 128 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
57/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $101,250 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCCAREERVILLAGE INC: $100,000 · EducationCAREERVILLAGE INCACT for Women and Girls: $75,000 · EducationACT for Women and Gir…MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE: $56,000 · EducationMENLO-ATHERTON HIGH S…SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM: $50,000 · EducationSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMI…CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS: $40,000 · Education+11 more: $164,700 · Education+11 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL CALIF…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $175,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVESPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATIONEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $95,000 · OtherSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $75,000 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+73 more: $1,107,342 · Other+73 moreLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $260,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKAR…ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $100,000 · HealthADOLESCENT CO…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $75,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH …THE MAVEN PROJECT: $50,000 · HealthTHE MAVEN PRO…VISION TO LEARN: $50,000 · HealthVISION TO LEA…FLOATING DOCTORS INC: $40,000 · HealthFLOATING DOCT…California Health Collaborative: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $5,100 · HealthSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $300,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $125,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL CAL…FOOD FINDERS INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FINDER…LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionKQED INC: $375,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePUENTE DE…Hack the Hood Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHack the …KIND INC: $200,000 · Crime & LegalImmigration Project Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Crime & LegalDIGITAL NEST INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth United for Community Action: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICANO & LATINO YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $12,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $850 · Youth Development
Education$936,950Other$1,852,342Health$605,100Food & Nutrition$490,100Arts & Culture$425,000Crime & Legal$375,000Youth Development$363,350

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 budgetKQED INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $101,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetImmigration Project Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $100,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCAREERVILLAGE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $95,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMindful Life Project: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE: $56,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetABLE WORKS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MAVEN PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBEYOND BARRIERS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetBREAKING THE CHAINS: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDestination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMYSPEECH: $40,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetRespond Crisis Translation: $40,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFLOATING DOCTORS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS: $40,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Invent: $40,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetBay Area Womens Sports Initiative: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSWIPE OUT HUNGER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Atkinson FoundationThe David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…Philanthropic Venture…Jewish Community Fede…Gordon E and Betty I …The Palo Alto Communi…East Bay Community Fo…Tides Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA36.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Westly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 128 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home