· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k23 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Judicial Watch | $13,000 |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $12,000 |
| Samaritan Purse | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army of the Lowcountr | $6,100 |
| Talking Bibles International | $4,500 |
| Hillsdale College | $3,100 |
| Olive Tree Ministries | $2,600 |
| Radiance Women's Center | $2,000 |
| Leadership Institute | $2,000 |
| Prison Fellowship | $2,000 |
| Campus Crusade For Christ | $1,516 |
| The Navigators | $1,516 |
| Search The Scriptures | $1,500 |
| National Right to Work Foundation | $1,500 |
| The Pre-Trib Research Center | $1,100 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +112% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 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
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +134%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM5× · 2018–2022 · $33k · revenue +117%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- SHSafe Harborone grant, 2021 · $20k
- WFWSU Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15k
- KAKids Alive International Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +43%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 71 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Talking Bibles International ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KITSAP RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds THE COFFEE OASIS ↗
- Who funds SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds EdChoice 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: 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
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.
How this is measured
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