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The Whitt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

International$738kFood & Nutrition$638kHuman Services$531kHealth$470kYouth Development$402kAnimals$199kPhilanthropy$164kEducation$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT HUB ARMENIA$60,000
THREE SQUARE FOOD BANK$50,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$25,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NV$25,000
SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
CORE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
DAYS FOR GIRLS$25,000
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PATIENT EMPOWERM$20,000
CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN$15,000
OUR CENTER$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE LAS VEGAS$10,000
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA$10,000
NV PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH$10,000
HENRYS PLACE$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%austin diaper bank: $700 → 10%charity navigator: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $3k → 7%GIRLS WHO CODE: $10k → 17%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $20k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $5k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $5k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $3k → 12%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 13%las vegas recue mission: $500 → 13%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $20k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 50 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
46

Total granted

$3.4M
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+32%

Still filing today

62%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $477k · revenue +9%
  • IH
    IMPACT HUB ARMENIA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $230k · revenue +61% · 45% of their budget
  • DF
    Days For Girls International
    8× · 2018–2025 · $218k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IH
    IMPACT HUB
    one grant, 2021 · $63k
  • RE
    roller education foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +20%
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
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…

Unclassified
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families

At zero to three we provide parents, professionals, and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture early development. we envision a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full…

Human Services
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hayg Foundation Inc. 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

64 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. 64 of the 104 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $214,560 · OtherOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $170,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORE: $130,000 · OtherCOREFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NV: $115,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NVCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $95,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE LAS VEGAS: $92,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $70,000 · OtherNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $76,500 · Other+58 more: $875,719 · Other+58 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $210,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEAL…COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC: $185,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY OUTREA…PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthPEACEHEALTH SACR…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…+3 more: $15,000 · HealthTHREE SQUARE: $476,650 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARECENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionIMPACT HUB ARMENIA INC: $230,000 · InternationalIMPACT HUB AR…Days For Girls International: $217,945 · InternationalDays For Girl…Hayg Foundation Inc: $25,000 · International+3 more: $13,200 · InternationalSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $45,000 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $42,500 · AnimalsPAWS AND STRIPES INC: $30,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $30,000 · AnimalsPET PARTNERS: $10,000 · Animals+4 more: $6,500 · AnimalsINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $77,500 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $32,500 · Human ServicesSTREET TEENS: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $8,500 · Human Services+3 more: $7,200 · Human Services
Other$1,924,279Health$570,000Food & Nutrition$506,650International$486,145Youth Development$170,000Animals$164,000Human Services$160,700

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 budgetTHREE SQUARE: $476,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT HUB ARMENIA INC: $230,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetDays For Girls International: $217,945 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $214,560 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $210,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC: $185,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $77,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $76,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $75,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS: $50,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMSI US: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHENRYS PLACE: $35,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS AND STRIPES INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHayg Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE ARMENIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMETANOIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYPATH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET TEENS: $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE TRANSITION MEDITATION CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $7,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Adaptive Riding: $7,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNoco Humane: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT HUB ARMENIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MSI US ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRYS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
  • Who funds PAWS AND STRIPES INC ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Hayg Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Nevada Community Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Mgm Resorts FoundationThe Mel & Ruth Wolzin…United Way of Souther…NV Energy Charitable …Enterprise Holdings F…Thomas Nelson Abdella…The Nell J Redfield F…Speedway Children's C…Colorado Gives Founda…
Nevada Community Foundation IncNV21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Thomas Nelson Abdella MD Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Colorado Gives 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 Whitt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Whitt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report 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.
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How do I get to The Whitt Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Whitt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 104 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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