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The Whitman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$621kReligion$582kEducation$517kHuman Services$227kYouth Development$197kHousing & Shelter$108kCivil Rights$55kAnimals$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
MT CARMEL ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
ONE HEART NOLA$10,000
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $480 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 17%Buna's Hope Foundation: $10k → 11%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $25k → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $15k → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $10k → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $3k → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $2k → 23%ONE HEART NOLA: $20k → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $10k → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $6k → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $5k → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $3k → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $575 → 15%ONE HEART NOLA: $500 → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $22k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $22k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $21k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $20k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $20k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $20k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $20k → 15%Woman's New Life Center: $155 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
MD
AZ
DC
LA
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 52 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+4%

Still filing today

44%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +29%
  • EC
    ECHO COMMUNITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +238%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · $95k
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OF OUR LADY OF MT CARM
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • EJ
    East Jefferson High School
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
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
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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2
Louisiana Fraternal Order of Police Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Life Choices of North Central Louisiana

See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item

Health
4
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

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…

Human Services
5
Loyola University

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…

Education
6
Luke's House- a Clinic for Healing and Hope

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.

Health
7
Logos Classical Academy

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.

Education
8
Aspiring Scholars

To help build access to a high quality educational experience in a nurturing environment for families who otherwise could not afford catholic school tuition

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9
Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

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11
Our Lady of the Angels Hospital Inc

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.

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12
Heroes of New Orleans

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Troopers Charities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Benilde Catholic Church: $294,672 · OtherSt Benilde Catholic ChurchST BENILDE SCHOOL: $293,798 · OtherST BENILDE SCHOOLST VINCENT DE PAUL: $95,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULIndividual grant recipient: $83,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $76,000 · OtherST CHRISTOPHER CHURCH: $76,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL: $55,280 · OtherBoys Hope Girls Hope of New Orleans: $54,150 · Other+59 more: $482,408 · Other+59 moreBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $178,000 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE COR…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $130,988 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS …American Heart Association Inc: $31,000 · HealthAmerican Heart A…LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $16,500 · Health+1 more: $300 · HealthMORNING STAR RISING: $144,455 · Human ServicesMORNING STA…Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $54,600 · Human ServicesLouisiana R…ONE HEART NOLA INC: $44,825 · Human ServicesONE HEART N…BUNAS HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $880 · Human ServicesECHO COMMUNITY: $75,676 · Youth DevelopmentFRATERNUS INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A SAINT: $13,650 · Youth DevelopmentOZANAM INN: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $32,500 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: $90,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY HOMESCHOOL APOSTOLATE INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$1,510,808Health$356,788Human Services$254,760Youth Development$106,826Housing & Shelter$97,500Public Safety & Disaster$91,000Education$60,000

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 budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $178,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMORNING STAR RISING: $144,455 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $130,988 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: $90,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetECHO COMMUNITY: $75,676 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOZANAM INN: $65,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $54,600 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetONE HEART NOLA INC: $44,825 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $32,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCBIB INC: $25,500 over 7y, 16% of budgetLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRATERNUS INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetNorthshore Food Bank: $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $13,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCASA JEFFERSON INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBUNAS HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetHOLY FAMILY HOMESCHOOL APOSTOLATE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSt Therese Academy: $9,630 over 1y, 18% of budgetHOPE AND PURPOSE MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISIANA STATE TROOPERS ASSN: $3,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA TROOPERS CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $880 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 BUNAS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Shell USA Company Fou…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Baptist Community Min…Fine Family FoundationGustaf Westfeldt McIl…Gayle and Tom Benson …Goldring Family Found…United Way of Southea…Second Harvest Food B…Salutare Deum Foundat…The Vincent Saia Foun…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA30.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Whitman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Whitman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 86 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home