· Private foundation
Whitener Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIBLE TRAINING CENTER FOR PASTORS | $100,000 |
| ABILENE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF COMPANIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| LANTERN PROJECT | $50,000 |
| BIG COUNTRY CASA | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HOMES | $20,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST SANTA FE | $20,000 |
| NOAH PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FABER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- FOFellowship of Companies For Christ5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +49%
- BCBIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $177k · revenue +2%
- FOFIELDS OF WHEAT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +381%
Funded once
- AHABILENE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SANTA FEone grant, 2020 · $40k
- NNDCCone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Care of neglected children
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
A faithful presence afp is an organization that provides holistic spiritual care, community building, and trauma-informed advocacy for our formerly homeless neighbors while training other communities to do the same.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Our mission is to help the underemployed, through personal, career, academic and spiritual development, acquire the confidence and skills for gainful and long-term employment.
Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. waco habitat for humanity adheres to a…
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Homes of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cappella Romana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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
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 Fellowship of Companies For Christ ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER HOUSE OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds FIELDS OF WHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds The Lantern Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA ROMANA ↗
- Who funds Christian Homes of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FABER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NOROC INC ↗
- Who funds The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
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: Barber Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Jm Parker Foundation · Claude & Mae Moss Charities
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 Whitener 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.
- Cappella Romana — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Repertory Singers — 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.