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Westridge Foundation

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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$7.4MEducation$3.4MArts & Culture$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$111kCivil Rights$81kRecreation & Sports$60kAnimals$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$400,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FND$300,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB$200,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$60,000
THE MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA$50,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC$50,000
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY$43,000
WOMEN IN FILM$30,000
GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE INC$25,000
MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY$25,000
VIA ART FUND INC$25,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $5k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
KY
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 38 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
32

Total granted

$13M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+36%

Still filing today

92%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsAnimalsInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +51%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +37%
  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PP
    Pogo Parkgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +175%
  • IF
    INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • TM
    THE MOOG CENTER FOR DEAF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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8
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
9
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
10
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
11
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We the Protesters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Lgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …School Parent OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%50%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,899

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
55/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,110,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSIT…CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $555,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTSCornell University — $500,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $375,000 · Education+9 more — $299,000 · EducationMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $1,219,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISC…San Francisco Film Society — $1,040,500 · OtherSan Francisco Film SocietyTHE STANFORD FUND OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · OtherTHE STANFORD FUND OF STANFORD U…DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FND — $510,000 · OtherDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FN…STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB — $400,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB+26 more — $290,000 · Other+26 moreCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $855,000 · HealthCANCER RE…MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $145,000 · HealthMONTAGE H…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $95,000 · HealthPLANNED P…LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $80,000 · HealthLUCILE PA…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $55,000 · HealthMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) — $275,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…VIA ART FUND INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureVIA ART F…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $170,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANC…Sundance Institute — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSundance …KREWE OF RED BEANS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureKREWE OF …FILM INDEPENDENT — $52,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $187,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $111,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL USA — $20,000 · InternationalHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC — $5,000 · International+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalPogo Park — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFrancisco Park Conservancy — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $20,000 · AnimalsPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $10,000 · AnimalsDOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Animals
Education$7,989,000Other$4,059,500Health$1,280,000Arts & Culture$1,174,500International$139,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Animals$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $1,219,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $1,040,500 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $855,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $555,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $375,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) — $275,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC — $250,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $201,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $170,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $111,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKREWE OF RED BEANS — $65,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $52,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPogo Park — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget18 Reasons — $42,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health — $40,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAntenna — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCITY LORE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS INSTITUTEINC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $21,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIF INNOVATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL USA — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION — $18,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCTIC ICE PROJECT — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEL CARES — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Clif Family FoundationMcNabb FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Gordon E and Betty I …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA31× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Clif Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Westridge Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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