How much does The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation give?

The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,512,845 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (26%), Arts & Culture (8%).

Who are The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($2.5M), Medstar Health Inc ($910k), Federal City Council ($350k).

Does The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation based?

The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation is based in MD.

The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation

The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$700k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.7MHealth$1.5MArts & Culture$475kCommunity Improvement$350kHuman Services$161kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kReligion$127kSocial Science$100kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $25k
$10k–50k11 grants · $178k
$50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$250k+2 grants · $960k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION	$700,000
MEDSTAR HEALTH	$260,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	$150,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN	$100,000
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL	$100,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$35,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE	$20,000
THE KENNEDY CENTER	$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK	$20,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$20,000
ST BARTHOLOMEW	$12,645
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON	$10,000
FLINT HILL SCHOOL	$10,000
TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL	$10,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.6M · 31 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+33%

Still filing today

55%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

HA
HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
MH
MEDSTAR HEALTH INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $910k · revenue +11%
FC
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL
3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +3%

Funded once

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The Economic Club of Washington DC
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +13%
NC
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $30k
UW
UNITED WAY TYSON'S CORNER
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit

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

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Solidarity Bridge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

20/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$2,651,200Other$1,563,995Health$1,282,050Crime & Legal$145,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Arts & Culture$30,000Environment$20,000

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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN15.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rabbitt Whalen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home