· Private foundation
Kenneth Whalen Family Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $504
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| RADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $350,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
| BILATERAL SAFETY CORRIDOR COALITION | $90,000 |
| THE MONARCH SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| ALBION 12 FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION | $14,590 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $104 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its 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 +17% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +62% · 50% of their budget
- TMThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff6× · 2020–2025 · $722k · revenue +34%
- BSBilateral Safety Corridor Coalition5× · 2021–2025 · $411k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- CCUREBOUNDone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +6%
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HPHARBOR POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
Our mission is to more fully capitalize on socal's compelling diversity of talent, ideas and perspectives byoptimizing the conditions for socal's innovators to bring more breakthroughs to the world and further elevate the region as a…
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
The American Institute of Biological Sciences AIBS is a national scientific organization promoting the use of science to inform decision-making which advances biology for the benefit of science and society. AIBS initiatives are unified by…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The LAM Foundation urgently seeks safe and effective treatments and ultimately a cure for LAM.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff ↗
- Who funds Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Burn Institute ↗
- Who funds ALBION 12 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kenneth Whalen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth Whalen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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