· Private foundation
Westwood Endowment Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN | $231,403 |
| 4AFRICA | $231,403 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL | $231,402 |
| SEED EFFECT | $221,402 |
| GLOBAL TRUST PARTNERS | $213,102 |
| THE SINAPIS GROUP | $186,905 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| KIJABE CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $56,403 |
| MACLELLAN CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC DBA GENEROSITY PATH | $50,000 |
| LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| CHRIST'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| DALIT FREEDOM FUND | $15,000 |
| AGAPE CHILDRENS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| HOPE WALKS | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +125% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
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 FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- 44AFRICA3× · 2019–2021 · $631k · revenue +91%
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL3× · 2019–2021 · $561k · revenue +125%
- SESEED EFFECT3× · 2019–2021 · $536k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- TVTHE VERITAS FORUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $180k · revenue +65%
- DADevelopment Assoc Internationalone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +8%
- CICONGO INITIATIVE USA INCone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -11%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
KidZ at Heart International is a global Christian community that trains, partners with, and mobilizes networks of leaders to help children fall deeply in love with Jesus. We train and partner with churches and families to successfully…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life in Abundance International and the most unlike its peers is Prison Fellowship International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 31 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
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 4AFRICA ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SEED EFFECT ↗
- Who funds KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Global Trust Partners ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds KIJABE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Character Inc ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICA MAINLAND CHINESE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds REACT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTS HOPE U S A INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Fruit Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · Stewardship Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Micah 68 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 Westwood Endowment Inc 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% 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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