How much does Whatley Foundation give?

Whatley Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $126,661 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Whatley Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Religion (11%), Environment (11%).

Who are Whatley Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Treehouse ($95k), Teleios ($35k), Earl Palmer Ministries ($32k).

Does Whatley Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Whatley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Whatley Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Whatley Foundation based?

Whatley Foundation is based in WA.

Whatley Foundation

Whatley Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Whatley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$127k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

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 2024.

Human Services$257kReligion$93kEnvironment$90kEducation$80kHealth$50kArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$37kInternational$30kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $82k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k

$1,951

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TREEHOUSE	$20,000
UPLIFT FOUNDATION	$15,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE WATERFRONT	$9,200
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$5,700
TELEIOS	$5,000
RECOVERY CAFE	$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FOUNDATION	$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$3,000
OVERFLOW FOUNDATION	$3,000
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS	$3,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM	$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY	$2,500
WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$620k · 57 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$620k

$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+44%

Still filing today

70%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

T
TREEHOUSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +172%
T
TELEIOS
7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
DI
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
4× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +112%

Funded once

UN
UPLIFT NORTHWEST
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $16k
JW
JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -19%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Northwest Literacy 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

99 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. 99 of the 145 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

98/99

Grantees still filing

75/99

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$460,736Youth Development$105,500Education$94,544Health$65,450Philanthropy$37,389Human Services$37,044Religion$36,800

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA38.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donald Family Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kennedy-Ries Family 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 Whatley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whatley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home