· Private foundation
Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k11 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $710k
- $250k+1 grant · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTURAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE (CER) | $301,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART INC | $70,000 |
| THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $70,000 |
| NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $65,000 |
| WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS | $65,000 |
| PAIDEIA INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $60,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS | $60,000 |
| PLATO | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC | $50,000 |
| HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($9.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% 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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 30 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +4%
- WWWords Without Borders Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +38%
- TFTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ATAQUILA THEATREone grant, 2022 · $60k
- PLPHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORGgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
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 Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of american poetry by providing fellowships for poets of proven merit, by granting scholarships, awards and prizes for poetic achievement, and by other such means as the board of directors…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Writers Workshop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marion & Ben Duffy 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 257 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 THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds Words Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
- Who funds ZYZZYVA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE STORY INC ↗
- Who funds The Massachusetts Review Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ON 20S INC ↗
- Who funds Litro Media Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund · Council of Literary Magazines and Presses · The Poetry Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc · Shuree Abrams Foundation · The Rona Jaffe Foundation · The Walbridge Fund
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 Mrs Giles 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Massachusetts Review Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams 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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