Georgia · Private foundation
Joseph B Whitehead Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $76M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $450,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,939,786
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $717M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Joseph B Whitehead Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $52M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $66M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $53M | 51% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $57M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $50M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $51M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc | $116,356,045 | 6 | 24% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc | $22,000,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Partners for Home Inc | $17,000,000 | 4 | 45% |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $14,000,055 | 3 | 4% |
| Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc | $10,000,000 | 1 | 33% |
| The Salvation Army | $7,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc | $6,100,031 | 2 | 2% |
| Georgia Family Connection Partnership Inc | $5,470,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc | $5,300,000 | 6 | 36% |
| Westside Future Fund Inc | $5,000,000 | 4 | 16% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph B Whitehead Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joseph B Whitehead Foundation
- How much does Joseph B Whitehead Foundation give?
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $76,134,821 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph B Whitehead Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Health (9%), Education (7%).
- Who are Joseph B Whitehead Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc ($116M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ($22M), Partners for Home Inc ($17M).
- Does Joseph B Whitehead Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph B Whitehead Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph B Whitehead Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Joseph B Whitehead Foundation based?
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundation is based in GA.
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