How much did WHITENER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of WHITENER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

ridgeanimalsrescuedogspca

2020

animalsrescuehealthdogaid

2021

musicaidanimalsrescuedoghealth

2022

animalshealth

2023

education enrichment

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k33 grants · $75k
$10k–50k3 grants · $32k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

DUNCAN BAPTIST CHURCH$11,500
WATERLIFE CHURCH$10,000
AMERICAN CHILDREN'S HOME$10,000
SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE$8,500
GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES$8,500
WESTCHESTER BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FD$4,500
JULIAN GIBSON SCHOOL$4,000
UNC-GREENSBORO$4,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY$3,500
BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION$3,000
CALDWELL COUNTY PREGANCY CARECENTER$3,000
YOKEFELLOW CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$3,000
WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY$2,500
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$705k · 58 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +155% since the first grant, against +127% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$705k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+155%

+127%

Still filing today

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

BR
BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY
3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +204%
RL
RUFF LOVE FOSTER CARE&DOG RESCUE
5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +128%
SK
SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE
2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +240%

Funded once

SK
SISTER KITTEN RESCUE
one grant, 2021 · $4k
BC
BETHEL COLONY CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $3k
JM
JW MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Greeneville-Greene County Humane Society Inc

Providing animal shelter for stray animals

Animals

Humane Society of York County

We are finding loving fur-ever homes for dogs and cats.To make sure York County, SC cats and dogs are treated in a humane manner, rescued, placed in loving and forever homes by:Increasing dogs and cats adoptions and rescues;Empowering the…

Animals

Yancey County Humane Society

Our mission is to shelter, rehabilitate and adopt stray and unwanted dogs and cats of Yancey County into permanent loving homes and provide compassionate, humane and educational services to improve animal welfare.

Animals

Carolina Basset Hound Rescue Inc

The mission of Carolina Basset Hound Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome unwanted basset hounds in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Animals

Pisgah Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animals

Cedartown Polk County Humane Society Inc

We speak for animals who cannot speak for themselves. We are in the daily business of saving the lives of companion animals by eliminating starvation, abuse, neglect and euthanasia.

Animals

Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Animals First rescues unwanted dogs and cats from area high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. With a network of foster families, they provide veterinary care, shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals

Guadalupe County Humane Society

We are a no-kill shelter operating within humane guidelines dedicated to housing and caring for misplaced animals until a qualified loving home is found for them.

Animals

Charlies Angels Animal Rescue

Charlies Angels Animal Rescue is a Western North Carolina non-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to saving the lives of adoptable dogs and cats who would die without our intervention.

Animals

Palmetto Paws Animal Rescue

The organization is dedicated to saving pets from certain death in shelters, prevent animal neglect and cruelty, and reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets.

Animals

Greyhound Pets Inc

Recovering and placing greyhound dogs in adoptive homes.

Animals

Pets Inc the Carolinas Humane Society

Rescue, spay and neuter, place dogs and cats in responsible homes. Additionally, microchip dogs and cats, vaccinate and perform heartworm and feline tests in 2023.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guilford Green Foundation and the most unlike its peers is High Point University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

13%

1,276/9,874

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

13/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$665,213Animals$42,287Human Services$14,700Education$7,000Environment$3,200Youth Development$1,100Health$1,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of GreaterNC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Coffey Foundation Inc · Stevens Family Foundation Inc · David and Claudia Babb Reich · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 organisation WHITENER 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843522446 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Whitener Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Whitener Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WHITENER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Whitener Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WHITENER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Whitener Foundation?

More from the funding graph