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The Whiting Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2026still arriving
34
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2026 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $555k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$300,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$100,000
FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN$75,000
SLOAN MUSEUM LONGWAY PLANETARIUM$75,000
YMCA GREATER FLINT$55,176
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
DURANT-DORT CARRIAGE CO FOUNDATION$40,000
WHALEY HISTROIC HOUSE MUSEUM$30,000
THE NEW MCCREE THEATRE$30,000
UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY$30,000
FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION$25,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$25,000
SHELTER OF FLINT INC$25,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFELINE PILOTS: $18k → 14%LIFELINE PILOTS: $10k → 14%LIFELINE PILOTS: $15k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LIFELINE PILOTS: $15k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LIFELINE PILOTS: $12k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LIFELINE PILOTS: $10k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $8k → 16%FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION: $5k → 16%YWCA GREATER FLINT: $30k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $3k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $3k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $3k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 40 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
14

Total granted

$5.8M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+29%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FI
    Flint Institute of Music
    6× · 2021–2026 · $1.2M · revenue +69%
  • YO
    YMCA of Greater Flint
    5× · 2021–2026 · $217k · revenue +63%
  • FB
    Food Bank of Eastern Michigan
    5× · 2022–2026 · $135k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • YO
    YWCA OF GREATER FLINT
    one grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Flint & Genesee Group

With a mission to maximize economic and community growth through collaborative partnerships and promotion of the region, the Organization aims to strengthen the local economy and create a place where people thrive, and businesses invest…

Community Improvement
2
Greater Flint Health Coalition Inc

Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.

Health
3
Child Welfare Society of Flint
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4
The Flint Children's Museum

To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.

Arts & Culture
5
Flint and Genesee Group Foundation

The Flint & Genesee Foundation's purpose is to receive and administer funds for educational, scientific and charitable purposes and for public welfare of Genesee County, Michigan.

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6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
7
The Serenity House of Flint

Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.

Human Services
8
My Brother's Keeper of Genesee County Inc

Impacting the homeless of flint and genesee county by providing shelter and life transitioning opportunities with dignity,compassion and respect.

Crime & Legal
9
About Face Detroit
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10
Flint Social Club

Flint Social Club is to lower access barriers for the Flint food community by mentoring chefs and creating equitable opportunities for growth.

Employment
11
Family Service Agency of Mid Michig

Social service agency serving clients in mid-michigan.

Human Services
12
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ennis Center for Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORP-SLOAN LO: $460,000 · OtherFLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORP-SLOAN LOIndividual grant recipient: $350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFlint Public Library: $350,000 · OtherFlint Public LibraryYMCA of Greater Flint: $217,176 · OtherYMCA of Greater FlintTHE NEW MCCREE THEATRE: $145,000 · OtherSLOAN MUSEUM LONGWAY PLANETARIUM: $100,000 · OtherSHELTER OF FLINT INC: $120,000 · Other+35 more: $1,252,085 · Other+35 moreFlint Institute of Music: $1,210,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of MusicFlint Institute of Arts: $685,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of ArtsFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $300,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Cultural Center Corporation+1 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $75,000 · HealthMICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC: $60,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $51,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $155,000 · PhilanthropyFLINT JEWISH FEDERATION: $145,000 · PhilanthropyLIFELINE INC: $79,500 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $30,000 · Human ServicesCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $10,100 · Human ServicesENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $135,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentELE'S PLACE INC: $45,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,994,261Arts & Culture$2,225,000Health$336,000Philanthropy$300,000Human Services$182,100Food & Nutrition$135,000Youth Development$130,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlint Institute of Music: $1,210,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts: $685,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint: $217,176 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $155,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFLINT JEWISH FEDERATION: $145,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $85,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $79,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $63,400 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetURBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetMICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $54,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP: $45,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGenesee County Habitat for Humanity: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGLENWOOD HERITAGE FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund: $24,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $10,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGenesee County Historical & Museum Society: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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 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 Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
  • Who funds LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds URBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
  • Who funds GLENWOOD HERITAGE FUND ↗

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 Lo…Charles Stewart Mott …Community Foundation …Nartel Family Foundat…Merkley Charitable Tr…The Hagerman Foundati…The Serra FoundationAnna Paulina Foundati…Ruth Mott FoundationBurroughs Memorial Tr…Tummala Charitable Fo…Consumers Energy Foun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Whiting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Whiting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 61 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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