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Whitehill Family Foundation

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.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

International$82kEnvironment$68kFood & Nutrition$52kHealth$30kCommunity Improvement$24kAnimals$11kEducation$10kEmployment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$707k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feeding America$7,500
The Conservation Fund$6,000
North County Mission of Hope$5,000
Finca International$4,000
One Acre Fund$4,000
Wildlife Conservation Society$3,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$3,000
Food Forward$2,500
Opportunity Junction$2,000
One Tree Planted$2,000
Accion Opportunity Fund$1,500
World Central Kitchen$1,500
Brain & Behavior Research Fund$1,500
Proximity Designs$1,500
Coalfield Development Corporation$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%Food Forward: $3k → 14%North County Mission of Hope: $5k → 14%Wildlife Conservation Society: $3k → 28%FINCA International: $4k → 14%One Acre Fund: $4k → 8%Feeding America: $8k → 14%THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7k → 7%One Tree Planted: $2k → 10%OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%Food Forward: $2k → 14%North County Mission of Hope: $4k → 14%Wildlife Conservation Society: $3k → 28%FINCA International: $4k → 14%One Acre Fund: $4k → 8%Feeding America: $5k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $6k → 7%Opportunity Fund Community Development: $4k → 8%Opportunity Junction: $2k → 9%Food Forward: $2k → 14%North County Mission of Hope: $3k → 14%Wildlife Conseration Society: $3k → 28%Finca International: $4k → 14%One Acre Fund: $4k → 8%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6k → 7%Accion Opportunity Fund: $4k → 8%North County Mission of Hope: $3k → 14%Wildlife Conservation Society: $3k → 28%FFINCA International Inc: $4k → 14%One Acre Fund: $4k → 8%Feeding America: $5k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $6k → 7%OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 8%NORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE: $3k → 14%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4k → 14%Feeding America: $5k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $6k → 7%NORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE: $3k → 14%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4k → 14%Feeding America: $5k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $6k → 7%North County Mission of Hope: $3k → 14%FINCA International: $4k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $6k → 7%NORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE: $3k → 14%THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MT
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 27 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
22

Total granted

$267k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+38%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +78%
  • Feeding America
    8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +77%
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • DC
    Dana-Farbar Cancer Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
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
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve and the most unlike its peers is South Bay Literacy Council. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $29,500 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL I…ONE ACRE FUND — $16,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $2,000 · International+5 more — $4,800 · International+5 moreTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $45,200 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND…ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION — $3,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $2,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RESOLVE — $2,000 · Environment+4 more — $4,100 · Environment+4 moreFeeding America — $39,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFOOD FORWARD INC — $11,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD INCACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $16,500 · Community ImprovementACCION OPP…ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementACCION OPP…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,700 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIV…NORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE — $26,100 · ReligionNORTH COU…Brain & Behavior Research Fund — $5,000 · OtherBrain & Behavior Resear…Manhattan Beach Nursery School — $4,000 · OtherManhattan Beach Nursery…Dana-Farbar Cancer Institute — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherProximity Designs — $3,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society — $11,100 · OtherWildlife Conservation S…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $4,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL D…GIVEDIRECTLY INC — $5,000 · OtherGIVEDIRECTLY INCOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $6,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION IN…+17 more — $18,700 · Other+17 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $14,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,000 · HealthOSBORNE HEAD & NECK FOUNDATION A NON PROFIT CALIFORNIA CORP — $1,625 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · HealthAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $700 · Health
International$57,800Environment$56,300Food & Nutrition$50,000Community Improvement$27,700Religion$26,100Other$62,800Health$22,325

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $45,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $39,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $29,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE — $26,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $11,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Beach Nursery School — $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE RESOLVE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSBORNE HEAD & NECK FOUNDATION A NON PROFIT CALIFORNIA CORP — $1,625 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGin — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The James Irvine Foun…The San Francisco Fou…California Community …ImpactassetsincJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
The James Irvine FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Whitehill Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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