Kentucky · Private foundation
Whitaker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $971k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $205,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Whitaker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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 | 29 | $971k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $872k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $929k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $938k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $924k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $834k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $907k | 21% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $2,025,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lexington Rescue Mission | $1,201,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Lexington Kentucky | $750,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Campbellsville University Inc | $320,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Housing Development Alliance Inc | $245,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lotts Creek Community School | $190,000 | 7 | 16% |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Christian Student Fellowship Inc | $135,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dv8 Kitchen Vocational Training Foundati on Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitaker Foundation Inc 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Saint Joseph Health System Inc
How this is measured
About Whitaker Foundation Inc
- How much does Whitaker Foundation Inc give?
- Whitaker Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $971,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Whitaker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Human Services (27%), Public Benefit (15%).
- Who are Whitaker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alice Lloyd College ($2.0M), Lexington Rescue Mission ($1.2M), Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc ($800k).
- Does Whitaker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitaker Foundation Inc 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 Whitaker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, United Way of the Bluegrass Inc.
- Where is Whitaker Foundation Inc based?
- Whitaker Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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