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Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to award fellowships primarily to college level educators, to enable them to study abroad in unfamiliar environments, in order to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to enhance the quality of their instruction.

$261k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Itemized grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$225k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,390
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,520
Organizations funded a year
15 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$161k29%
FY202416$236k13%
FY202318$212k28%
FY202215$205k20%
FY202115$140k47%
FY202020$217kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$55k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$214,69960%
Providence College$167,01560%
University of Massachusetts$85,9955n/a
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College$75,18650%
Emerson College$50,14750%
Bennington College Corporation$44,58210%
Wheaton College$43,72960%
University of Hartford$37,32040%
Trustees of Clark University$33,53330%
Salem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc$32,92731%
Wellesley College$32,14140%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$30,15630%
Connecticut College$26,32120%
Bridgewater State University$26,2573n/a
University System of New Hampshire$24,5703n/a
Williams College$21,46020%
Colby-Sawyer College$20,80040%
Hampshire College Trustees$20,44520%
Suffolk University$18,46430%
Cape Cod Community College$18,1542n/a
Western New England University$17,90430%
Framingham State Univ$12,4362n/a
Curry College$12,33620%
Saint Anselm College$8,81320%
Trustees of Boston University$6,49810%
Johnson & Wales University$6,44610%
The Trustees of the Smith College$6,40010%
Springfield College$6,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$5,99210%
Framingham State University Foundation Inc$5,92010%
Norwich University$5,90010%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$5,82510%
Roger Williams University$5,80010%
Salem State University$5,7001n/a
Northeastern University$5,46010%
Trustees of Dartmouth College$5,4181n/a
Lasell University$5,37710%
Stonehill College Inc$5,01510%
Worcester State Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Lesley University$5,00010%
Rhode Island School of Design$3,67510%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $214,699 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence College: $167,015 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $75,186 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmerson College: $50,147 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBennington College Corporation: $44,582 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College: $43,729 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Hartford: $37,320 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $33,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc: $32,927 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWellesley College: $32,141 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $30,156 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $26,321 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $21,460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $20,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHampshire College Trustees: $20,445 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk University: $18,464 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestern New England University: $17,904 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCurry College: $12,336 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Anselm College: $8,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $6,498 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohnson & Wales University: $6,446 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield College: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFramingham State University Foundation Inc: $5,920 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorwich University: $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Polytechnic Institute: $5,825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoger Williams University: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $5,460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLasell University: $5,377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStonehill College Inc: $5,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester State Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLesley University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island School of Design: $3,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation

How much does Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation give?
Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $225,028, out of $260,622 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Health (4%).
Who are Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($215k), Providence College ($167k), University of Massachusetts ($86k).
Does Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Foundation, Davis Educational Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation based?
Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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