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Westmount Foundation at a glance

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Westmount 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$32kReligion$27kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$8kHousing & Shelter$5kSocial Science$4kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$50
Median grant
3
States reached
$343
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION AND ENDOWMENT FUND$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS$1,000
SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA$500
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
Individual grant recipient$50
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 (FY18–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $10k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $105 → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%RED CROSS: $38 → 10%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
WI
NY
CA
CO
DC
OK
GA
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 99% of Westmount Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 97%.

Westmount Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 6 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
24

Total granted

$32k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TS
    THE STREET CHAPLAINCY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $22k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    2× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue -16%
  • SZ
    SHAARE ZION BETH-EL CONGREGATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2k

Funded once

  • TP
    THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • FH
    Fellowship Housing Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +84%
  • PQ
    PAUL QUINN COLLEGE DONATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
12
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Hebron House of Hospitality Inc D/B/a Hebron Housing Services. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 53 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STREET CHAPLAINCY: $22,000 · OtherTHE STREET CHAPLAINCYSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $7,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKPAUL QUINN COLLEGE DONATION: $5,000 · OtherPAUL QUINN COLLEGE DONATIONTHE KITCHEN RABBI AT GLIDE: $2,500 · OtherTHE KITCHEN RABI AT GLIDE: $2,500 · Other+35 more: $9,298 · Other+35 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SA…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $2,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…Southern Methodist University: $3,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Uni…THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $405 · Human Services+1 more: $38 · Human ServicesFellowship Housing Corporation: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $103 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $4,150 · Social Science
Other$48,298Philanthropy$43,000Education$28,000Human Services$10,443Housing & Shelter$5,103International$4,600Social Science$4,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $4,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $405 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $38 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Westmount Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westmount Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 53 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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