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Whitaker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$172kHuman Services$39kFood & Nutrition$34kHealth$28kEducation$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kHousing & Shelter$14kCivil Rights$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k81 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$500
Median grant
22
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
SNOQUALMIE VALLEY FOOD BANK$20,000
RANCHO LAGUNAS HOME OF EQUINE ASSISTED RESCUED THERAPY$5,000
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA PARISH$5,000
MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION$3,250
MISSIONARY OBLATES$3,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$3,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$3,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CARMELITE HOUSE OF PRAYER$1,500
COVENANT HOUSE - TIMES SQUARE STATION$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES SHELTER$1,000
ST ANTHONY'S OF PADUA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MILLIONAIRE CLUBUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $500 → 9%UPLIFT: $500 → 9%MILLIONAIRE CLUBUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $350 → 9%MILLIONAIRE CLUBUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $100 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $250 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $200 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $200 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $100 → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $250 → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $4k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $3k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $200 → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
MN
MI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 84 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
21

Total granted

$430k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-6%

Still filing today

40%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    Americans United for Life Inc
    5× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • EN
    ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST
    5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +50%
  • SF
    Students for Life of America Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • OL
    Our Lady of Sorrows
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CT
    CALL TO SERVE AS CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TT
    The Tolt Historical Society
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
8
Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
10
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.

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11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $136,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMissionary Oblates: $53,000 · OtherMissionary OblatesOur Lady of Sorrows: $50,000 · OtherOur Lady of SorrowsCALL TO SERVE AS CHRIST: $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $16,500 · Other+83 more: $196,725 · Other+83 moreSNOQUALMIE VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $13,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $1,450 · Human ServicesEASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $1,050 · Human ServicesLifeWire: $950 · Human ServicesAmericans United for Life Inc: $5,202 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America Inc: $2,750 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $2,050 · Civil RightsSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · Civil RightsCATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS: $900 · Civil RightsLIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS: $3,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $2,250 · EducationAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $1,650 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1,450 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · HealthThe Gretchen Weller Foundation: $1,350 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $1,250 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,200 · HealthOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthTHE HOPE HEART INSTITUTE: $950 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $850 · HealthCROSSROADS INC: $500 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,800 · Public Benefit
Other$472,225Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$16,450Civil Rights$12,652Education$10,850Health$8,600Public Benefit$4,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $13,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $5,202 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWBROOK FARM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE MARIANWOOD FOUNDATION: $3,850 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $2,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMt Si Senior Center: $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ART MISSIONS: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gretchen Weller Foundation: $1,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $1,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE HEART INSTITUTE: $950 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Advocates for Children of Kittitas County: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SNOQUALMIE VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWBROOK FARM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE MARIANWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Seattle FoundationNehemiah VenturesApex FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Satya and Rao Remala …Employees Community F…Glassybaby White Ligh…Employees Community F…Donors Trust Inc
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Whitaker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitaker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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