Massachusetts · Private foundation
Westra Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $78k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $496k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Westra Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 6 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $81k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $150k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $97k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $53k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummer Youth Promise Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Public Library Fund Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Elevate New England Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Serve and Connect | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Trinity Academy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Up Education Network | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grub Street Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummer Youth Promise Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Public Library Fund Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Elevate New England Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Serve and Connect | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Trinity Academy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Up Education Network | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grub Street Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reach Inc | $8,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Park Street School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jb's Keys to Dmd Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Esplanade Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Westra Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Westra Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Westra Family Charitable Trust give?
- Westra Family Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Westra Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Youth Development (18%), Science & Tech (14%).
- Who are Westra Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($70k), Boston Public Library Fund Inc ($50k), Elevate New England Inc ($35k).
- Does Westra Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Westra Family Charitable Trust 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 Westra Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation, Barr Foundation.
- Where is Westra Family Charitable Trust based?
- Westra Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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