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The Whittier Educational 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| LUZERNE MUSIC CENTER | $20,000 |
| SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $20,000 |
| ONE WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND | $20,000 |
| KQED INC | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| WILSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| OAKLAND THEATRE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| SAGE SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| NW DANCE PROJECT | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- WCWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTWCCUSD2× · 2022–2023 · $83k
- WCWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND2× · 2017–2018 · $49k
- LMLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC5× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- KHKENNEDY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $28k
- TFThe Forgotten Internationalone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- YAYOUNG ARTISTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Opera Parallle presents compelling performances of contemporary operas with high musical and dramatic standards, embracing modern aesthetics, creative use of technology, and social relevance as essential to the future of the art form.…
The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.
Shotgun Players is a company of artists determined to create bold, relevant, affordable theatre that inspires and challenges audience and artist alike to re-examine our lives, our community, and the ever-changing world around us.
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Richmond Yacht Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 42 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 LUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Forgotten International ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center ↗
- Who funds The Z Space Studio ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bay Area ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART ↗
- Who funds San Jose Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PLAYGROUND ↗
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: Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ronald Whittier Family Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Rhe Charitable Foundation · The Rock 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 Whittier Educational 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.
- Northwest Professional Dance Projec Dba Northwest Dance Project — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association 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.
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