· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whitener Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitener Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cappella Romana: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Repertory Singers: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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