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Whitehall Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k57 grants · $5.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $297,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PISCATAWAY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STATION | $100,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
200 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SRSCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $150k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Education and Research
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Raven Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 292 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Martin Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Whitehall Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Addison County Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Sandwich Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hope Center for Autism Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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