Texas · Private foundation
The Whalley 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.
- $6.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2025
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 88
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Whalley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 87 | $6.6M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 88 | $7.4M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $6.8M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 86 | $6.1M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $3.9M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $2.8M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $2.1M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $1.6M | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Houston Food Bank | $2,965,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $1,865,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $1,755,000 | 9 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $1,730,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,525,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Covenant House Texas | $1,330,000 | 9 | 4% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,170,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Briarwood School | $1,165,025 | 9 | 4% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $1,145,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $1,061,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Whalley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · The Medallion Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
About The Whalley Foundation
- How much does The Whalley Foundation give?
- The Whalley Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $6,625,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Whalley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Whalley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Houston Food Bank ($3.0M), Kids' Meals Inc ($1.9M), Texas Children's Hospital ($1.8M).
- Does The Whalley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Whalley 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Whalley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Whalley Foundation based?
- The Whalley Foundation is based in TX.
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