· Private foundation
Joseph and Desiree Whitney Family
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $71,260 |
| NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCI | $17,500 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATION | $13,500 |
| MARNITAS TABLE | $11,023 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,168 |
| GO FUND ME | $2,749 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF | $2,500 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $2,149 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,107 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,091 |
| BEHAVIORAL INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| SCHEUERMAN YOUTH | $1,550 |
| NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY | $1,053 |
| LTO VENTURES | $1,025 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +7%- TDThe Drawer2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +178%
- GGOFUNDMEORG3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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
23 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. 23 of the 86 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 Marnitas Table Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds The Drawer ↗
- Who funds LAUREL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds THRU PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Joseph and Desiree Whitney Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Desiree Whitney Family. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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