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Whelchel Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$23,334
Largest grant, FY2021
$35,000
States reached, FY2021
4
Total assets, FY2021
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church$35,0001n/a
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$23,33410%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$23,33410%
It Takes a Village Canine Rescue Inc$23,33414%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

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About Whelchel Family Foundation

How much does Whelchel Family Foundation give?
Whelchel Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $120,002 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Whelchel Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (39%), Religion (29%), Animals (19%).
Who are Whelchel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church ($35k), Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc ($23k), St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($23k).
Does Whelchel Family 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.
Where is Whelchel Family Foundation based?
Whelchel Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 5 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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