North Carolina · Private foundation
Whaley Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,095,790
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Whaley Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $2.2M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $85k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $84k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unc Eshelman School of Pharmacy Foundation | $269,043 | 6 | 4% |
| Salisbury University Foundation Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Triangle Day School | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Tennessee Technological University Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Action Kivu Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beach to Bay Heritage Area Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Whaley Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Whaley Family Foundation Inc give?
- Whaley Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $2,193,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Whaley Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Education (15%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Whaley Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Unc Eshelman School of Pharmacy Foundation ($269k), Salisbury University Foundation Inc ($63k), North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation ($60k).
- Does Whaley Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whaley 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 Whaley Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Whaley Family Foundation Inc based?
- Whaley Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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