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William N and Ruth M Westhoff Family Foundation at a glance

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William N and Ruth M Westhoff Family 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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$208kReligion$115kHuman Services$83kFood & Nutrition$66kHousing & Shelter$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kRecreation & Sports$45kInternational$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESSIAH CHURCH$62,150
CONNECTIONS ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN$20,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$20,000
SALVATION ARMY$14,500
GROVES LEARNING ORGANIZATION$11,050
HOSPITALITY HOUSE$7,000
PRISM$7,000
VEAP$7,000
THE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT$6,000
IOCP$5,000
RE-MEMBER$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BRIDGES TO LEARNING$2,000
Individual grant recipient$750
UPLIFT NORTH$500
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RE-MEMBER: $5k → 42%BLACK MEN TEACH: $5k → 14%RE-MEMBER: $3k → 42%BLACK MEN TEACH: $4k → 14%RE-MEMBER: $3k → 42%BLACK MEN TEACH: $4k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $2k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $3k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $4k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $2k → 11%PRISM: $7k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MPLS ST PAUL: $1k → 11%FRASER: $500 → 11%UPLIFT NORTH: $500 → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MPLS ST PAUL: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
SD
OH
CT
CA
NE
MO
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
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.
$653k · 33 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
50

Total granted

$653k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+41%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • GA
    GROVES ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +58%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $53k · revenue +105%
  • VI
    VEAP Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST COMM ON RELIEF
    one grant, 2017 · $52k
  • F
    FORA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • StandUp for Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +76%
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
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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3
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
4
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
5
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
6
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
7
Friends of the Children - Chicago

Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
8
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
9
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
10
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
11
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
12
Volunteers of America of Illinois

Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care for Real; the most unlike its peers is Thrive Kenya. 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

50 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. 50 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESSIAH CHURCH: $79,450 · OtherMESSIAH CHURCHUNITED METHODIST COMM ON RELIEF: $52,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST COMM ON RELIEFUCM FOUNDATION: $51,000 · OtherUCM FOUNDATIONVEAP Inc: $38,000 · OtherVEAP IncSALVATION ARMY: $37,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYFORA: $25,000 · OtherCONNECTIONS ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $25,000 · OtherSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $19,000 · Other+58 more: $212,949 · Other+58 moreGROVES ACADEMY: $83,100 · EducationGROVES ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINN…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationBlack Men Teach: $12,500 · Human ServicesRE-MEMBER: $11,250 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $10,100 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $7,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partnership: $5,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3,250 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTH: $2,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR REAL: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesTRUE FRIENDS: $27,000 · Recreation & SportsINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $3,000 · HealthNATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORGANIZATION: $1,250 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Employment
Other$539,899Education$139,600Human Services$56,100Recreation & Sports$28,500Food & Nutrition$25,000Health$25,000Employment$22,500

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 budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $83,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMy Very Own Bed: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRE-MEMBER: $11,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $10,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LEARNING INC: $9,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone Community Outreach: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMARA INTERNATIONAL KRIS THORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUPLIFT NORTH: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FX INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORGANIZATION: $1,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNANDALE FOOD SHELF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHRIVE KENYA: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRASER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSH CREEK ELEMENTARY PTO: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
  • Who funds RE-MEMBER ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOND BETWEEN ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…John D and Catherine …The K FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…The Sauer Family Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Opus FoundationUnited Way Worldwide
The Minneapolis FoundationMN28.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Opus Foundation · United Way Worldwide

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 William N and Ruth M Westhoff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William N and Ruth M Westhoff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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