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Charles a Whitehead Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $62,000 |
| ARC OF THE BAY | $40,000 |
| CHAUTAUGUA | $40,000 |
| GULF COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTE | $40,000 |
| ST ANDREWS BAY YACHT CLUB | $25,000 |
| GULF COAST STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PANAMA CITY SYPHONY | $15,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF EMERALD COAST | $11,000 |
| BAY YOUTH MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WITCHES OF ST ANDREWS | $10,000 |
| AUDUBAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PROJECT 25 | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 15 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- GCGULF COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $424k · revenue +250%
- BEBAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +14%
- GCGULF COAST STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PTPORT THEATER ARTSone grant, 2018 · $50k
- PCPANAMA CITY FL HURRICANE DISASTERone grant, 2019 · $26k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
We support the men & women of the sea services and their families. We support youth groups such as Sea Cadets, NJROTC, MCJROTC, and a STEM summer program.
To protect threatened sea turtles on 17.5 miles of gulf beach in Bay County Florida.
To provide a focal point for artistic, educational and cultural activities within the city of port st joe, florida and the surrounding areas.
To promote through education, the appreciation, distribution, and enjoyment of fine arts and crafts in the local community.
Provides for the basic needs of families and individuals in bay county, florida
Youth development
To provide literacy and program assistance for the bay county public library.
To provide an excellent education for students
The mission of the florida wind band is to entertain and inspire the community through live performances of high-quality wind band music, while providing enhanced youth performance opportunities.
Serve and support community and charity to improve for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerald Coast Volleyball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 118 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 GULF COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Youth Music Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS BAY YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WITCHES OF ST ANDREWS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BAY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Public Eye Soar Inc Public Eye Soar ↗
- Who funds Panama City Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds PANAMA CITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE POSITIVE PLACE INC ↗
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: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Fyfe Family Foundation Inc · Community Service Foundation of Bay County Inc · Isaac W Byrd Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Mack and Eleanor Lewis Family Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Obid Family Foundation Inc · 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 Charles a Whitehead Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Panama City Trilingual School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bay Haven Charter Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Florida Police Chiefs Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior League of Panama City Inc — 0% of income from government
- Humble House Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Education Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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