How much does Whaley Foundation give?

Whaley Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,561,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Whaley Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (13%).

Who are Whaley Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Walker Art Center ($1.1M), Cretin-Derham Hall ($650k), Minnesota Historical Society ($521k).

Does Whaley Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Whaley Foundation 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 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Whaley Foundation based?

Whaley Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Whaley 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 30
Grants FY2025: 29
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 29; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $15M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Whaley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$1.6M	20%
FY2024	29	$1.1M	14%
FY2023	28	$859k	29%
FY2022	23	$714k	17%
FY2021	23	$659k	30%
FY2020	20	$1.1M	35%
FY2019	13	$1.1M	0%
FY2018	14	$1.7M	36%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.3MArts & Culture$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$264kInternational$179kReligion$88kYouth Development$33kHealth$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Walker Art Center	$1,084,000	9	1%
Cretin-Derham Hall	$650,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Historical Society	$521,000	7	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$500,000	1	0%
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library	$260,500	6	3%
Sisters Rising Worldwide	$174,000	4	3%
Kgsa Foundation	$126,000	8	6%
Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)	$50,000	1	1%
Highland Friendship Club	$32,500	9	1%
Literacy Matters Foundation	$30,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Whaley Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Walker Art Center	$1,084,000	9	1%
Cretin-Derham Hall	$650,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Historical Society	$521,000	7	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$500,000	1	0%
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library	$260,500	6	3%
Sisters Rising Worldwide	$174,000	4	3%
Kgsa Foundation	$126,000	8	6%
Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)	$50,000	1	1%
Highland Friendship Club	$32,500	9	1%
Literacy Matters Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota	$27,000	8	0%
University of Denver	$25,500	2	0%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$25,000	1	0%
Alight	$24,000	5	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$16,000	4	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$15,000	5	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$13,000	9	0%
Neighborhood House	$13,000	6	0%
Northeastern University	$10,000	1	0%
Open Arms of Minnesota	$6,000	6	0%
Avivo	$5,000	5	0%
Center for Economic Inclusion	$5,000	5	0%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness	$4,000	4	0%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center	$4,000	2	0%
Dream of Wild Health	$3,000	3	0%
Veterans to Farmers Inc	$3,000	3	0%
Hamline Midway Coalition	$1,000	1	0%
Springboard for the Arts	$1,000	1	0%
Minnesota Humane Society	$1,000	1	0%
Friends of the Hennepin County Library	$1,000	1	0%
Every Meal	$1,000	1	0%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whaley Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The K Foundation · The Graco 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.

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About Whaley Foundation

How much does Whaley Foundation give?: Whaley Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,561,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Whaley Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Whaley Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Walker Art Center ($1.1M), Cretin-Derham Hall ($650k), Minnesota Historical Society ($521k).
Does Whaley Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Whaley Foundation 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 Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Whaley Foundation based?: Whaley Foundation is based in MN.