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Westwood 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL GIVING - HANDSONTOKYO | $5,000 |
| LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (BRAINERD) | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CABINET | $1,000 |
| BAZTEC FISHING AND OUTDOORS | $1,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $750 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY LIBRARY | $500 |
| JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT OF HAWAII ISLAND | $500 |
| ZEPHYR COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- WCWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-122× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +8%
BELOIT COLLEGE2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +16%- LTLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SSSKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $625 · revenue +60%
- SDSAN DIEGO ZOOone grant, 2023 · $600
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350 · revenue +25%
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.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.
To conserve, protect, and restore north america's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The mission of the monterey bay aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean. millions of people worldwide draw inspiration from the aquarium and look to us to advocate for the ocean and its wildlife.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
Mission/work: to provide a protected sanctuary for native wildlife and their habitats while connecting people with nature in ways that inspire exploration and lifelong environmental conservation.
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Skiduck Skiing for Disabled and Underprivileged Children and Older. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 Walnut Creek Education Foundation K-12 ↗
- Who funds Baztec Fishing & Outdoors ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds ZEPHYR COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.
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.