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The Whalen-Wilson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$142k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Whalen-Wilson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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 arriving4$40k0%
FY20234$68k0%
FY20223$15k33%
FY20214$49k50%
FY20203$19k33%
FY20192$12k50%
FY20183$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$89kEducation$59kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$20kAnimals$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stephens College$26,50060%
Brookgreen Gardens$20,00010%
Claflin University$16,00040%
Newberry College$11,00030%
The Wildcat Sanctuary$5,00020%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About The Whalen-Wilson Foundation

How much does The Whalen-Wilson Foundation give?
The Whalen-Wilson Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $39,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Whalen-Wilson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (38%), Education (25%), Religion (17%).
Who are The Whalen-Wilson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Stephens College ($27k), Brookgreen Gardens ($20k), Claflin University ($16k).
Does The Whalen-Wilson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Whalen-Wilson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Whalen-Wilson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Whalen-Wilson Foundation based?
The Whalen-Wilson Foundation is based in SC.

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 9 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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