Michigan · Private foundation
Whirlpool Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 141
- Grants FY2024
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 179
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Whirlpool Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 140 | $9.7M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $7.9M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $7.5M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $4.4M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 113 | $10M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 100 | $8.7M | 82% |
| FY2018 | 174 | $8.5M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 179 | $17M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Shores Public Asset Fund Inc | $18,300,824 | 6 | 19% |
| United Way of Southwest Michigan | $12,487,699 | 8 | 48% |
| Cornerstone Alliance | $10,925,000 | 8 | 92% |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | $3,250,225 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Sandusky County Inc | $1,857,672 | 8 | 32% |
| Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund | $1,799,572 | 5 | 21% |
| Harbor Habitat for Humanity Inc | $1,260,000 | 3 | 73% |
| Darke County United Way Inc | $1,190,822 | 7 | 41% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Southwest Michigan | $1,049,571 | 5 | 15% |
| Curious Kids Museum | $800,300 | 4 | 44% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 417 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Whirlpool Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · American Electric Power Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc · The Covia Foundation · Bill Nygren Foundation · The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Fettig Family Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Whirlpool Foundation
- How much does Whirlpool Foundation give?
- Whirlpool Foundation reported 141 grants totaling $10,095,034 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 179 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Whirlpool Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (41%), Philanthropy (26%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Whirlpool Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harbor Shores Public Asset Fund Inc ($18M), United Way of Southwest Michigan ($12M), Cornerstone Alliance ($11M).
- Does Whirlpool Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whirlpool Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whirlpool Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, The Marzke Family Foundation, United Way of Southwest Michigan.
- Where is Whirlpool Foundation based?
- Whirlpool Foundation is based in MI.
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