· Private foundation
Westwood Gives
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHERISH A CHILD USA | $26,700 |
| LENA POPE HOMES INC | $20,000 |
| TEXAS SEARCH AND RESCUE | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - KERRVILLE KROC CORPS COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Westwood Gives’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EWENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS3× · 2021–2024 · $100k
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +33%
- SDST DAVID'S CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DADallas Area Habitat for Humanity Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -27%
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.
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. macon area habitat for humanity adheres to…
The mission of tchfh lending, inc. is to help those underserved by the traditional mortgage industry attain homeownership through its affordable mortgage program.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. hfhc builds the capacity of habitat for humanity affiliates in colorado by increasing access to resources,…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. jackson county habitat for humanity…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity sandusky county…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. topeka habitat for humanity adheres to a…
Our mission: charlotte county habitat for humanity, a christian housing ministry, is committed to homeownership: by a needs-based partnership with low-income charlotte county residents building safe, affordable, quality homes using…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to relive our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of sumner county…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of the sanford area,…
Cplc nevada, inc. is a community development corporation (cdc), committed to building stronger, healthier communities by leading advocate, coalition builder, and direct service provider. (continued on schedule o)cplc nevada, inc. promotes…
We believe everyone deserves a decent place to live. by building, preserving, and expanding fair access to affordable homeownership, habitat partners with people and families to build strong futures on the foundation of a stable home.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHERISH A CHILD USA ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND SURVEYORS' FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Westwood Gives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westwood Gives. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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