· Private foundation
The Whitman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Rebuilding New Orleans | $60,000 |
| ST BENILDE SCHOOL | $28,500 |
| Bridge House | $25,500 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $23,250 |
| Woman's New Life Center | $21,500 |
| Echo Community | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $16,000 |
| LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE | $15,000 |
| Brother Martin High School | $11,858 |
| ARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| ACCESS PREGNANCY CENTER | $11,000 |
| ONE HEART NOLA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MT CARMEL ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL OF NEW | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- BHBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +7%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +29%
- ECECHO COMMUNITY4× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +238%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2021 · $95k
- COCONGREGATION OF OUR LADY OF MT CARMone grant, 2019 · $20k
- EJEast Jefferson High Schoolone grant, 2017 · $14k
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.
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
To advance the safety, security, and well-being of louisiana's law enforcement officers and their families by making available appropriate safety devices and/or training for law enforcement personnel, to the extent that local government is…
See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item
The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
Logos Academy of New Orleans is an ecumenical community of believers coming together with a common goal of classically educating our children in a loving Christian community.
To help build access to a high quality educational experience in a nurturing environment for families who otherwise could not afford catholic school tuition
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
The hospital's purpose is to provide care for the ill, injured, or disabled persons & to provide for research, education, & the enhancement of health of those in southeast louisiana.
Heroes of New Orleans is a grassroot 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and empowering youth and families. Our mission is to elevate underprivileged youth and families who face poverty or its risks, through a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Troopers Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Therese Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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 86 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 BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR RISING ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ECHO COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CBIB INC ↗
- Who funds LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRATERNUS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds CASA JEFFERSON INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY HOMESCHOOL APOSTOLATE INC ↗
- Who funds BUNAS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Fine Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Salutare Deum Foundation · The Vincent Saia 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 Whitman Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.