· Private foundation
Thomas and Donna Whitney Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHERS (RAFT) | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Thomas and Donna Whitney Education Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +224% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue ×12
- MFMUSIC FOR MINORS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +59%
- MTMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FCFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +10%
- MAMONTALVO ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +70%
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.
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.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The purpose of the Montecito Community Foundation is to support a strong Montecito community and serve as a resource for philanthropy.
It is the purpose of Ag Land Trust to assist in the preservation and protection of all productive and important agricultural, open space and historical lands in Monterey County (and adjacent areas). Such action will contribute derectly to…
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.
To educate and inspire through environmental stewardship.
Changing lives through land conservation by connecting people to place, forever.
Monterra community fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fund created by monterra credit union to support our commitment to financial wellness in our community.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR MINORS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR HIDDEN VILLA ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARK AND CAROLYN GUIDRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SHORES ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas and Donna Whitney Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Donna Whitney Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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