Louisiana · 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.
- $327k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Whitman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $327k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $168k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $154k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $463k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $319k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $334k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $379k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $333k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge House Corporation | $178,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Morning Star Rising | $144,455 | 8 | 1% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $130,988 | 7 | 0% |
| Youth Rebuilding New Orleans | $90,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Echo Community | $75,676 | 4 | 5% |
| Ozanam Inn | $65,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Archbishop Rummel High School | $55,280 | 8 | n/a |
| Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc | $54,600 | 5 | 2% |
| Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| One Heart Nola Inc | $44,825 | 7 | 10% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Whitman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Whitman Family Foundation
- How much does The Whitman Family Foundation give?
- The Whitman Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $327,258 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Whitman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Religion (23%), Education (21%).
- Who are The Whitman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bridge House Corporation ($178k), Morning Star Rising ($144k), Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($131k).
- Does The Whitman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Whitman Family 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 Whitman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, J Edgar Monroe Foundation.
- Where is The Whitman Family Foundation based?
- The Whitman Family Foundation is based in LA.
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