Washington · Private foundation
Whitaker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $124k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 80
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Whitaker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 82 | $124k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $97k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $55k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $130k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $138k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $16,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services | $13,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Annual Catholic Appeal | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Rancho Lagunas Home of Equine Assisted Rescue Therapy | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Americans United for Life Inc | $5,202 | 5 | 0% |
| St Anthony of Padua | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Meadowbrook Farm Preservation Association | $4,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Encompass Northwest | $3,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Providence Marianwood Foundation | $3,850 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($398k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitaker 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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · Nehemiah Ventures · Apex Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Donors Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Whitaker Foundation
- How much does Whitaker Foundation give?
- Whitaker Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $124,027 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 80 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Whitaker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Human Services (3%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are Whitaker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank ($20k), Catholic Relief Services ($17k), Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services ($13k).
- Does Whitaker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitaker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whitaker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, United Way of King County.
- Where is Whitaker Foundation based?
- Whitaker Foundation is based in WA.
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