· Public charity
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc
To support the education and care of women in 9 southeastern states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k95 grants · $16M
- $250k+113 grants · $47M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Emory University | $2,939,000 |
| Mercer University | $942,000 |
| Westminster-Canterbury Foundation | $813,500 |
| Radford University Foundation Inc | $810,500 |
| Medical College of Virginia Foundation | $809,000 |
| University of Virginia Medical School Foundation | $804,800 |
| Spelman College | $802,000 |
| Augusta University Foundation | $760,000 |
| Berry College | $750,000 |
| A G Rhodes Home Inc | $700,000 |
| University of Virginia Alumni Association | $668,750 |
| Agnes Scott College | $616,000 |
| Oglethorpe University | $615,000 |
| Clark Atlanta University | $605,000 |
| Presbyterian Homes of Georgia Inc | $577,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $13.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
209 repeat relationships — 204 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- EUEmory University5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +19%
- WCWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PVPRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE AUSTELL INCone grant, 2020 · $456k · revenue +0%
- UOUniversity of Alabama at Birminghamone grant, 2020 · $437k
- BSBon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2020 · $355k · revenue -39%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Southside Health Education Foundation. 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 74 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
201 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 201 of the 219 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds AG Rhodes Health & Rehab Atlanta ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
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: Council of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ibm International Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I
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 Lettie Pate 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 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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