Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Whimsie Fund
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.
- $322k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $111,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Whimsie Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $317k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $307k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $249k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $350k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $185k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $409k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna Blanca School | $307,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $102,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation | $100,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Lake Forest College | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roger Williams University | $67,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Beach Education Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Vna Health Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oldfields School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| McIntyre House | $13,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna Blanca School | $307,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $102,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation | $100,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Lake Forest College | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roger Williams University | $67,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Beach Education Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Vna Health Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oldfields School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| McIntyre House | $13,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Community Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Island Academy Inc | $8,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Newport Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Tree Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Van Ness Recovery House | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elings Park Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oakbrook Park Chumash Indian Corporation | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($962k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whimsie Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Www Foundation · The Robert & Christine Emmons Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Nurture Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mithun Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Whimsie Fund
- How much does Whimsie Fund give?
- Whimsie Fund reported 17 grants totaling $322,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Whimsie Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Education (29%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Whimsie Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Laguna Blanca School ($307k), Santa Barbara Maritime Museum ($103k), Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ($100k).
- Does Whimsie Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whimsie Fund 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 Whimsie Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Www Foundation.
- Where is Whimsie Fund based?
- Whimsie Fund is based in PA.
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