Wyoming · Private foundation
Whiskey River Charitable 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.
- $81k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $529
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $636k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Whiskey River Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 23 | $81k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $122k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $85k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $33k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $67k | 49% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $36k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $49k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denison University | $90,056 | 6 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $38,092 | 7 | 0% |
| Becoming Jackson Whole | $11,039 | 3 | 1% |
| Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation | $7,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Northwestern University | $5,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago | $5,213 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer for College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Pathways | $4,595 | 5 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $4,363 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whiskey River Charitable Foundation 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The Seabury Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · McKesson Foundation Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Whiskey River Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Whiskey River Charitable Foundation
- How much does Whiskey River Charitable Foundation give?
- Whiskey River Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $81,024 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Whiskey River Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Whiskey River Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Denison University ($90k), Marquette University ($50k), Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($38k).
- Does Whiskey River Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whiskey River Charitable 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whiskey River Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Whiskey River Charitable Foundation based?
- Whiskey River Charitable Foundation is based in WY.
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