Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Westport Fund
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.
- $437k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 178
- Grants FY2025
- 163
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 143 to 163
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Westport Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 173 | $426k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 163 | $385k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 143 | $367k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 153 | $349k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 163 | $327k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park School Corporation | $83,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Vail Health Services Foundation | $72,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Population Services International | $66,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dexter Southfield Inc | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Animal Cancer Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Writers & Books Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation Operating Camp Mowglis | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 190 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($451k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Westport Fund supplied at peak.
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Westport Fund?
Find your warmest path to Westport Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Westport Fund
- How much does Westport Fund give?
- Westport Fund reported 178 grants totaling $437,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 143 and 163 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Westport Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Westport Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Park School Corporation ($83k), Vail Health Services Foundation ($72k), Population Services International ($66k).
- Does Westport Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Westport Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Westport Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust.
- Where is Westport Fund based?
- Westport Fund is based in DC.
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