How much does The Whiting Foundation give?

The Whiting Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,308,176 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.

What does The Whiting Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (10%), Health (8%).

Who are The Whiting Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Flint Institute of Music ($1.2M), Flint Institute of Arts ($685k), Flint Public Library ($350k).

Does The Whiting Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Whiting Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Whiting Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Flint.

Where is The Whiting Foundation based?

The Whiting Foundation is based in MI.

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Michigan · Private foundation

The Whiting Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2026: 35
Organizations funded FY2025: 17%
First-time grantees FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2026: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 30 to 35; FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026: 5
Total assets, FY2026: $18M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 17% of the organizations The Whiting Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2026still arriving	33	$1.3M	18%
FY2025	35	$1.1M	17%
FY2024	30	$959k	10%
FY2023	30	$913k	10%
FY2022	34	$1.0M	29%
FY2021	32	$901k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.5MEducation$508kHealth$418kHuman Services$357kYouth Development$264kPhilanthropy$245kHousing & Shelter$125kFood & Nutrition$68kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Flint Institute of Music	$1,210,000	6	2%
Flint Institute of Arts	$685,000	6	2%
Flint Public Library	$350,000	4	n/a
Flint Cultural Center Corporation	$300,000	2	1%
YMCA of Greater Flint	$217,176	5	1%
United Way of Genesee County	$155,000	6	0%
Cancer Research Institute Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan	$135,000	5	0%
Shelter of Flint Inc	$120,000	6	1%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint	$85,000	5	1%

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All grantees of The Whiting Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Flint Institute of Music	$1,210,000	6	2%
Flint Institute of Arts	$685,000	6	2%
Flint Public Library	$350,000	4	n/a
Flint Cultural Center Corporation	$300,000	2	1%
YMCA of Greater Flint	$217,176	5	1%
United Way of Genesee County	$155,000	6	0%
Cancer Research Institute Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan	$135,000	5	0%
Shelter of Flint Inc	$120,000	6	1%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint	$85,000	5	1%
Lifeline Inc	$79,500	6	6%
American Diabetes Association	$75,000	5	0%
Humane Society of Genesee County	$63,400	3	7%
Mott Community College	$60,185	4	n/a
Urban Renaissance Center	$60,000	3	9%
Michigan Dyslexia Institute Inc	$60,000	6	1%
New Direction Youth Program	$60,000	6	n/a
Miracle Flights	$54,000	5	0%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc	$51,000	6	0%
Hurley Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$50,000	5	0%
Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp	$45,000	5	1%
Ele's Place Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Genesee County Habitat for Humanity	$30,000	2	0%
YWCA of Greater Flint	$30,000	1	1%
Glenwood Heritage Fund	$30,000	2	13%
Genesee Area Focus Fund	$24,000	2	0%
Voices for Children Advocacy	$20,000	2	1%
National Giving Alliance-Flint Branch	$15,000	1	n/a
Crossover Outreach	$10,100	4	0%
Genesee County Historical & Museum Society	$10,000	1	12%
Ennis Center for Children Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Franklin Avenue Mission Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Music With a Message for Kids Inc	$3,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

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

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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 29.

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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.

Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable TrustOH45.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Whiting Foundation

How much does The Whiting Foundation give?: The Whiting Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,308,176 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does The Whiting Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (10%), Health (8%).
Who are The Whiting Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Flint Institute of Music ($1.2M), Flint Institute of Arts ($685k), Flint Public Library ($350k).
Does The Whiting Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2025, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Whiting Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Whiting Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Flint.
Where is The Whiting Foundation based?: The Whiting Foundation is based in MI.