· Private foundation
The Ronald Whittier Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART - SAN JOSE | $33,541 |
| SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHT'S FOUNDATION | $2,650 |
| CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION | $2,600 |
| ARTADIA | $1,500 |
| AURORA THEATRE | $1,500 |
| PALO ALTO ART CENTER | $1,500 |
| PLAYGROUND | $1,100 |
| UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
| HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $525 |
| Z SPACE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| CITY LIGHTS THEATRE | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +110% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 19 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSan Francisco Playhouse4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +112%
- RARESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +110%
- DVDREAM VOLUNTEERS2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 96 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
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 San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds TEATRO VISION ↗
- Who funds MAGIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds PLAYGROUND ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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