California · Private foundation
Whitaker Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2026
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $56,745
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $272,374
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 8% of the organizations Whitaker Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 13 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2025 | 13 | $61k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $63k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $63k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $63k | 0% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc | $380,374 | 10 | 0% |
| Ferrum College | $154,036 | 2 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $95,094 | 10 | 0% |
| Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc | $79,245 | 10 | 0% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $51,396 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
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About Whitaker Fund
- How much does Whitaker Fund give?
- Whitaker Fund reported 13 grants totaling $1,384,572 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Whitaker Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (26%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Whitaker Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc ($380k), Ferrum College ($154k), American Cancer Society Inc ($95k).
- Does Whitaker Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitaker Fund 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.
- Where is Whitaker Fund based?
- Whitaker Fund is based in CA.
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