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The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$33,541
Organizations funded a year
2 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$521k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving22$64k86%
FY202329$96k69%
FY20222$121k100%
FY202121$98k67%
FY202013$124k46%
FY201910$125k50%
FY201819$118k84%
FY201714$94kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$449kArts & Culture$245kPhilanthropy$72kEducation$46kHousing & Shelter$11kFood & Nutrition$7kYouth Development$6kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
VA
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($740k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $46,550 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetResource Area for Teaching: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Art Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDream Volunteers: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPlaywrights Foundation Inc: $3,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational Psoriasis Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeatro Vision: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMagic Theatre Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArtcouncil Inc Dba Artadia: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlayground: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOld Skool Cafe: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Write Now Inc: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCo Lab Theater Group Inc: $1,023 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company: $1,023 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontalvo Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtshack Brooklyn Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeadlands Center for the Arts: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Z Space Studio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWehope: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornians for the Arts: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAls Therapy Development Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget42nd Street Moon: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNim Family Foundation Inc: $198 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Photographic Art: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Foundation of America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Historic Parks: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $35 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 38.

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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.

The Whittier Educational FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Whittier Educational Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · The Barth Foundation

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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How do I get to The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ronald Whittier Family 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 The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation

How much does The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation give?
The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $64,308 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Arts & Culture (29%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Playhouse ($47k), Resource Area for Teaching ($11k), San Jose Museum of Art Association ($5k).
Does The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Whittier Educational Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation based?
The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 96 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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