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The Whittier Educational Foundation at a glance

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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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$192kArts & Culture$144kInternational$34kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$3k
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE$25,000
ONE WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND$20,000
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$20,000
LUZERNE MUSIC CENTER$20,000
KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC$10,000
RICHMOND YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
KQED INC$10,000
WILSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
SAGE SCHOOL INCORPORATED$5,000
OAKLAND THEATRE PROJECT$5,000
NW DANCE PROJECT$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$3,000
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC: $1k → 20%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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 5 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$211k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
0%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • WC
    WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTWCCUSD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $83k
  • WC
    WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $49k
  • LM
    LUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • KH
    KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
  • TF
    The Forgotten International
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • YA
    YOUNG ARTISTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Marin Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
3
On the Boards

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.

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4
The Aurora Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Marin Open Studios

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…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Opera Parallle

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.…

Arts & Culture
8
Cutting Ball Theater

The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O

Arts & Culture
9
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
10
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Shotgun Players

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.

Arts & Culture
12
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
14/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTWCCUSD: $82,680 · OtherWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTWCCUSDWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $48,800 · OtherWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC: $38,000 · OtherLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INCKENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: $28,453 · OtherKENNEDY HIGH SCHOOLSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,000 · OtherSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTRICHMOND YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $21,053 · Other+8 moreSan Francisco Playhouse: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Playhous…KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INCKQED INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART…OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND THEATER PROJEC…NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT: $4,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+13 moreOne World Childrens Fund: $27,000 · PhilanthropyARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $1,500 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,050 · EducationThe Forgotten International: $5,000 · InternationalGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$248,986Arts & Culture$78,000Philanthropy$28,500Education$24,050International$5,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $27,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Forgotten International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTheatre Bay Area: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYGROUND: $500 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.

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.

Kenneth Rainin Founda…The William & Flora H…The Ronald Whittier F…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Fleishhacker Foundati…The Shubert Foundatio…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Leo J & Celia Car…Marin Community Found…The Rhe Charitable Fo…The Rock Foundation
Kenneth Rainin FoundationCA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Whittier Educational Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Whittier Educational 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 42 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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