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Westrock Foundation F/K/A Meadwestvaco 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Westrock Foundation F/K/A Meadwestvaco Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Westrock Foundation F/K/A Meadwestvaco Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 546 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2944 grants · $429k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $775k
- $250k+3 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $350,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $250,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| N A A C P LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $125,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA INC | $125,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA INC | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY PRESERVATION | $50,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| THE HENRY W GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| 3DE NATIONAL LLC | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $26,502 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Westrock Foundation F/K/A Meadwestvaco Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
479 repeat relationships — 442 still active in FY2021, 37 since wound down; 500 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $556k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +62%
- AFAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $496k · revenue +78%
THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2022 · $450k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- JFJobs for America's Graduates Incone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +7%
- CFCenter for Excellence in Educationone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +2%
- CICommunities in Schools of Atlanta Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +109%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
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The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
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Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Cheryl Lyn Welter Family Charitable Foundation. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
927 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. 927 of the 1,205 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds Center for Heirs' Property Preservation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jobs for America's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Goizueta Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family 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 Westrock Foundation F/K/A Meadwestvaco 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.
- North Florida Child Development Inc — 80% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Episcopal Children's Services Inc — 42% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- Elder Care Services Inc — 22% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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