· Private foundation
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $62,000 |
| GULF COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTE | $40,000 |
| ARC OF THE BAY | $40,000 |
| CHAUTAUGUA | $40,000 |
| GULF COAST STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREWS BAY YACHT CLUB | $25,000 |
| PANAMA CITY SYPHONY | $15,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF EMERALD COAST | $11,000 |
| WITCHES OF ST ANDREWS | $10,000 |
| AUDUBAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PROJECT 25 | $10,000 |
| BAY YOUTH MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +14% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 Panama City Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds PANAMA CITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Public Eye Soar Inc Public Eye Soar ↗
- Who funds ONE POSITIVE PLACE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles a Whitehead Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles a Whitehead Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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