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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHealth$55k
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $225,028 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $260,622 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,594 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$6,390
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$9,520
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$9,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$8,774
EMERSON COLLEGE$8,650
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$8,261
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,500
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$7,465
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$7,200
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$6,912
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$6,780
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$6,675
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST$6,603
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$6,465
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY$6,446
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CURRY COLLEGE: $7k → 7%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $9k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $7k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $14k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $9k → 17%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $7k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $10k → 9%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $9k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $7k → 10%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $7k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $8k → 12%EMERSON COLLEGE: $9k → 16%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $7k → 9%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $8k → 9%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $9k → 11%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $8k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $7k → 12%EMERSON COLLEGE: $9k → 16%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $7k → 9%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $7k → 11%EMERSON COLLEGE: $7k → 16%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $7k → 9%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $7k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $7k → 14%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $7k → 14%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $7k → 14%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $7k → 14%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 8%HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $8k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 8%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 12%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $9k → 12%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $7k → 12%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $7k → 12%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +28%
  • PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $167k · revenue +42%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +34%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +37%
  • SC
    SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College and the most unlike its peers is Framingham State University Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr14%76%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr14%89%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,314

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.

05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Middlebury College — $214,699 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegePROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $167,015 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $75,186 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGEMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $71,215 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $51,691 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE — $50,147 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $44,582 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGE — $43,729 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $37,320 · Education+24 more — $362,396 · Education+24 moreUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $85,995 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAS…Bridgewater State University — $26,257 · OtherBridgewater State…UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $24,570 · OtherUNIVERSITY SYSTEM…CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $18,154 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNIT…Framingham State Univ — $12,436 · OtherFramingham State …+6 more — $34,361 · Other+6 more
Education$1,117,980Other$201,773

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $71,215 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $51,691 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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $26,031 over 3y, 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 budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $3,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity FoundationDavis Educational Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity FoundationMA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Davis Educational Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
  • Norwich University — 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Lasell University — 1% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
  • Curry College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 0% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation?

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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