Arkansas · Private foundation
Whitaker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,192
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,017,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Whitaker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $837k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $679k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $809k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $640k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $741k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $500k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Athletes Outreach | $1,517,631 | 5 | 24% |
| Razorback Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Barnabas Foundation Inc | $444,816 | 4 | 3% |
| Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc | $400,029 | 6 | 2% |
| Circle of Life | $396,740 | 2 | 1% |
| Arkansas Baptist Assembly Inc D/B/A Camp Siloam | $324,620 | 2 | 4% |
| New Life Ranch Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Teen Action & Support Center | $150,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County | $90,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Excellerate Foundation | $80,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Athletes Outreach | $1,517,631 | 5 | 24% |
| Razorback Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Barnabas Foundation Inc | $444,816 | 4 | 3% |
| Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc | $400,029 | 6 | 2% |
| Circle of Life | $396,740 | 2 | 1% |
| Arkansas Baptist Assembly Inc D/B/A Camp Siloam | $324,620 | 2 | 4% |
| New Life Ranch Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Teen Action & Support Center | $150,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County | $90,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Excellerate Foundation | $80,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Home for Dinner Incorporated | $36,421 | 1 | n/a |
| Retrieving Freedom Inc | $30,820 | 1 | 1% |
| Ddx3x Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Horses for Healing Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Safe Haven Ministries Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fishing for the Fight | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Welcomehealth | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dana's House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Brandon Burlsworth Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Faulkner County Council on Aging Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Baptist Health Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitaker Family 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · Synchrony Foundation · Glass Family Foundation · Four1 Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Whitaker Family Foundation
- How much does Whitaker Family Foundation give?
- Whitaker Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,949,476 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Whitaker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (47%), Recreation & Sports (27%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Whitaker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arkansas Athletes Outreach ($1.5M), Razorback Foundation Inc ($600k), Barnabas Foundation Inc ($445k).
- Does Whitaker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitaker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whitaker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Wal-Mart Foundation.
- Where is Whitaker Family Foundation based?
- Whitaker Family Foundation is based in AR.
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