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Whitehurst Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Whitehurst Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MEducation$305kScience & Tech$215kPhilanthropy$145kCommunity Improvement$408Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CONSERVATION FUND$1,000,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$350,000
LF CHARITIES INC$100,000
NEW YORK UNIVESITY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$16,950
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$3,500
CAVU VENTURE PARTNERS IV LP$89
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%OLIVIA STRINGHAM: $17k → 8%AMHERST COLLEGE: $100k → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITALBE GIFT FUND: $48k → 16%LF CHARITIES INC: $100k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%CAVU VENTURE PARTNERS IV LP: $319 → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION: $550k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY: $5k → 8%STUDENT U: $5k → 11%THE CONSERVATION FUND: $1.0M → 13%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%LF CHARITIES INC: $100k → 10%CAVU VENTURE PARTNERS IV LP: $89 → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION: $350k → 9%THE CONSERVATION FUND: $75k → 13%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%NEW YORK UNIVESITY: $100k → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION: $340k → 9%WHITEHURST FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $92k → 13%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 4 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$2.5M
$312k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationInternationalEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue -13%
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • LC
    LF CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +782% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • WF
    WHITEHURST FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $92k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst College Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Lf Charities 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save The Children Federation Inc: $1,240,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,075,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPOR…AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $100,000 · EducationAMHERST COLL…William Marsh Rice University: $100,000 · EducationWilliam Mars…New York University: $100,000 · EducationNew York Uni…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,250 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationLF CHARITIES INC: $200,000 · Science & TechWHITEHURST FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $92,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,950 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY: $10,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $408 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $48,167 · Community Improvement
International$1,240,000Environment$1,075,000Education$320,250Science & Tech$200,000Other$124,358Community Improvement$48,167

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,075,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLF CHARITIES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $48,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT U: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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