Delaware · Private foundation
W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $337k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $337k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $301k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $261k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $276k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $251k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $266k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $269k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $288k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College | $563,244 | 8 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $550,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Island Institute | $235,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Opera House Arts | $180,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $100,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $71,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $46,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northeast Harbor Sailing School | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Grace Church School | $34,041 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Ainslie Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Roxiticus Foundation
How this is measured
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About W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc
- How much does W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc give?
- W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $336,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (34%), Environment (11%).
- Who are W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Williams College ($563k), American Museum of Natural History ($550k), Island Institute ($235k).
- Does W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc 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 W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust, Ainslie Foundation.
- Where is W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc based?
- W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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