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Westwood Foundation at a glance

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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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$22kRecreation & Sports$8kInternational$5kEnvironment$2kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$1kAnimals$850Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL GIVING - HANDSONTOKYO$5,000
BAZTEC FISHING AND OUTDOORS$1,000
LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (BRAINERD)$1,000
CHILDREN'S CABINET$1,000
THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA$750
JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT OF HAWAII ISLAND$500
ZEPHYR COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB$500
FRIENDS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY LIBRARY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDER: $625 → 10%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 9 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$33k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    Walnut Creek Education Foundation K-12
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +8%
  • BELOIT COLLEGE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • LT
    LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SS
    SKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $625 · revenue +60%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO ZOO
    one grant, 2023 · $600
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $350 · revenue +25%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nature Collective

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…

Environment
2
Swan Valley Connections

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.

Environment
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
5
The Salish Sea School

The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.

Environment
6
Trout Unlimited Inc

To conserve, protect, and restore north america's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.

Animals
7
International Snow Leopard Trust

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…

Animals
8
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
9
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation

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.

Animals
10
Wild Salmon Rivers

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…

Environment
11
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary

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.

Animals
12
For the Fishes

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Walnut Creek Education Foundation K-12: $13,000 · OtherWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-12GLOBAL GIVING - HANDSONTOKYO: $5,000 · OtherGLOBAL GIVING - HANDSONTOKYOFUTURE ROOTS PROJECT INC: $2,000 · OtherFUTURE ROOTS PROJECT INCLIFT LITERATURE INC: $1,600 · OtherLIFT LITERATURE INCFRIENDS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY LIBRARY: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,270 · OtherBaztec Fishing & Outdoors: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsBaztec Fishing & Outd…THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF NORT…BELOIT COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGEZEPHYR COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB: $1,500 · EducationZEPHYR COVE EL…LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $2,000 · ReligionTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDER: $625 · Human ServicesLAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $350 · Arts & CultureCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $250 · Animals
Other$23,870Recreation & Sports$8,000Education$5,500Religion$2,000Human Services$1,625Housing & Shelter$1,000Arts & Culture$350Animals$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWalnut Creek Education Foundation K-12: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBaztec Fishing & Outdoors: $7,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZEPHYR COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDER: $625 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Westwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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