· Private foundation
Carmel M and John G Whitman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBS SOCAL | $8,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| OJAI RAPTOR CENTER | $5,500 |
| RAICES | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $100 |
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, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 18% of Carmel M and John G Whitman Foundation’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 +98% since the first grant, against +84% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +98%- CLCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +18%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLEAVLAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MFmichael fox foundationone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURA HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds VALOR HEALING FARMS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carmel M and John G Whitman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carmel M and John G Whitman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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