· Private foundation
The Whiting Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $604k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $210,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $160,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| YMCA GREATER FLINT | $84,000 |
| YWCA GREATER FLINT | $30,000 |
| WHALEY HISTROIC HOUSE MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY | $26,000 |
| UNCF | $25,000 |
| FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| SHELTER OF FLINT INC | $25,000 |
| SLOAN MUSEUM LONGWAY PLANETARIUM | $25,000 |
| THE NEW MCCREE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| URBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FIFlint Institute of Music5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
- YOYMCA of Greater Flint4× · 2021–2025 · $162k · revenue +63%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
To provide health care coverage for low-income, uninsured residents of genesee county
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Impacting the homeless of flint and genesee county by providing shelter and life transitioning opportunities with dignity,compassion and respect.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ennis Center for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Nartel Family Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Hagerman Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Tummala Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Whiting Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.