South Carolina · Private foundation
Whitener Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $73k
- Granted FY2022
- 26
- Grants FY2022
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 16
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 38% of the organizations Whitener Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 24 | $68k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $187k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $20k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $22k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $23k | 27% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $37,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $33,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Talking Bibles International | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Discovery Institute | $5,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Sat-7 North America | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $5,428 | 5 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Resource Services | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kids Alive International Inc | $3,910 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitener Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Whitener Family Foundation
- How much does Whitener Family Foundation give?
- Whitener Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $73,082 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Whitener Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (19%), International (17%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Whitener Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Samaritan's Purse ($38k), Alliance Defending Freedom ($33k), Judicial Watch Inc ($24k).
- Does Whitener Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitener Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whitener Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Servant Foundation, The US Charitable Gift Trust.
- Where is Whitener Family Foundation based?
- Whitener Family Foundation is based in SC.
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