· Private foundation
Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $70,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART INC | $70,000 |
| NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $65,000 |
| WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS | $65,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS | $60,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $60,000 |
| PAIDEIA INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| PLATO | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- PLPHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORGgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +29%
- ATAQUILA THEATREone grant, 2022 · $60k
- KCKERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 257 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG ↗
- Who funds ONE STORY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ZYZZYVA INC ↗
- Who funds The Massachusetts Review Inc ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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