· Private foundation
Lk Whittier Foundation
Its FY2024 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $2,750,000 |
| BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION | $1,750,000 |
| LLWW FOUNDATION | $328,541 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $19M · revenue +24%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles2× · 2022–2023 · $15M · revenue +23%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BHBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5.0M · revenue 0%
- BABAY AREA LYME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.8M · revenue 0% · 77% of their budget
- LFLLWW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $329k · revenue 0%
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
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LLWW 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lk Whittier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lk Whittier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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