· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Teton County Search & Rescue | $30,000 |
| Denison University | $15,000 |
| Deerfield Academy | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Becoming Jackson Whole | $5,000 |
| SS Faith Hope & Charity | $1,200 |
| Southern Methodist University | $1,100 |
| Misericordia | $1,036 |
| Friends of Bridger Teton Avalanche Center | $1,033 |
| Chileno Bay Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $875 |
| Partnership to End Addiction | $529 |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness | $525 |
| Friends of Pathways | $517 |
| Knights of The Round Table | $515 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +39%
- MUMarquette University2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IIINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGOone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- CFCANCER FOR COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 137 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Becoming Jackson Whole ↗
- Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds CHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One-Revolution Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds CODE PLATOON NFP ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whiskey River Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whiskey River Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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