Utah · Private foundation
The Whittenburg 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.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $172k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Whittenburg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $4k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $10k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $11k | 77% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $11k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $3k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $13k | 90% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Become More | $15,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Utah Food Bank | $4,266 | 3 | 0% |
| Jordan Education Foundation | $3,551 | 2 | 0% |
| Usana Kids Eat | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Utah Blues Society | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelter the Homeless Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wasatch Forensic Nurses Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Salt Lake Acting Company | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $1,033 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Whittenburg Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Ashton Family Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Whittenburg Foundation
- How much does The Whittenburg Foundation give?
- The Whittenburg Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $3,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Whittenburg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Whittenburg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Become More ($15k), Utah Food Bank ($4k), Jordan Education Foundation ($4k).
- Does The Whittenburg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Whittenburg 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 Whittenburg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation.
- Where is The Whittenburg Foundation based?
- The Whittenburg Foundation is based in UT.
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