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Whelan Family Foundation

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.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$491kEducation$116kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$20kArts & Culture$19kPhilanthropy$11kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$59,061
ROSE HILL FOUNDATION$8,560
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$7,600
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA$2,500
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT$2,500
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM - SUPERWOMAN FUND$1,200
GROSS POINTE PARK FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$309
NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB$250
02The need
03

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 (FY18–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10k → 12%GAMMA PHI DELTA SORORITY: $10k → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $110 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
CA
MO
AZ
LA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$549k · 15 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$549k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+99%

Still filing today

73%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +69%
  • TG
    THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +88%
  • GP
    GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • HF
    HENRY FORD CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • M
    MUSICARES
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • GP
    GAMMA PHI DELTA SORORITY INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +77%
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.

1
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
2
Glendale Memorial Health Foundation

Provide direct services to the poor and advocate on their behalf and create partnerships that improve community health.

Health
3
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
4
Commonspirit Health Foundation

Commonspirit health foundation serves to operate in conformity with the mission, vision, and values of commonspirit health and to participate in collaborative efforts to enhance and improve the fundraising and grant-making efforts of all…

Religion
5
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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6
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital Foundation

Arroyo grande community hospital foundation relies on the generosity of the community to help support dignity health dba arroyo grande community hospital's efforts of providing quality affordable healthcare to the communities it serves.…

Health
7
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund

Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.

Community Improvement
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
9
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
12
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaumont Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sigma Gamma 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

25 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. 25 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $267,261 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM+3 more: $1,309 · HealthROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $142,110 · PhilanthropyROSE HILL FOUNDATIONTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUN…THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATIO…GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,012 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,401 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYHENRY FORD CANCER INSTITUTE: $30,000 · OtherHENRY FORD CANCER INSTITU…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM SUPERWOMAN FUND: $21,000 · OtherHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM …MUSICARES: $17,500 · OtherMUSICARESMI STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,600 · OtherOCHNER HOSPITAL: $6,000 · Other+18 more: $42,100 · Other+18 moreTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $47,600 · EducationTHE GROSS…GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · EducationGOOD SHEP…Red Sweater Project: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationGAMMA PHI DELTA SORORITY INCORPORATED: $10,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERS: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $110 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $12,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $2,500 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $2,250 · Recreation & SportsKID SMART: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $350 · Arts & Culture
Health$268,570Philanthropy$171,122Other$154,601Education$56,800Human Services$21,310Food & Nutrition$15,000Recreation & Sports$2,250Arts & Culture$1,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $267,261 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $142,110 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $47,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAMMA PHI DELTA SORORITY INCORPORATED: $10,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $3,012 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRed Sweater Project: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKID SMART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds ROSE HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds GAMMA PHI DELTA SORORITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Red Sweater Project ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
  • Who funds KID SMART ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …St Clair Charitable T…Raymond M & Jane E Cr…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · St Clair Charitable Trust · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Whelan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whelan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Whelan Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Whelan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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