· Private foundation
Whitener Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUNCAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $11,500 |
| WATERLIFE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CHILDREN'S HOME | $9,500 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FD | $6,000 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RUFF LOVE FOSTER CARE DOG RESCUE | $5,000 |
| JULIAN GIBSON SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY | $4,000 |
| WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY | $3,500 |
| UNC-GREENSBORO | $3,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| YOKEFELLOW CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY PREGANCY CARECENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $49k) 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 +48% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +38%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +48%- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC4× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
- BCBETHEL COLONY CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $3k
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF W PASCO INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +28%
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.
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
To work with animals concentrating on animal welfare, adoption, spay/neuter, and community awareness in the wiregrass area. in addition, we work with other shelters throughout the southeast by transporting adoptable animals to locations…
Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina
The society's mission is to shelter, prevent cruelty and adopt animals and to educate the public about responsible animal ownership.
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…
The organization provides shelter for homeless, abused, and abandoned animals. the shelter also provides an opportunity for adoption of these animals
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of the Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ruff Love Foster Care and Dog Rescue. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 90 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 GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUFF LOVE FOSTER CARE AND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE IN ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PASCO COUNTY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Coffey Foundation Inc
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 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.
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.