North Carolina · 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 53
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Whitener Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $101k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $106k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $114k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $126k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $139k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $115k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterlife Church Inc | $67,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Greensboro Urban Ministry | $27,592 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Humane Society of the Piedmont Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc | $15,137 | 3 | 1% |
| Bikes for Kids Foundation | $14,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Ruff Love Foster Care and Dog Rescue | $14,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sister Kitten Animal Rescue In | $13,000 | 3 | 2% |
| High Point University | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Wig Bank of Caldwell Countyinc | $8,500 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($545k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitener 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: 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
How this is measured
About Whitener Foundation
- How much does Whitener Foundation give?
- Whitener Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $101,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 53 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Whitener Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Human Services (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are Whitener Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Waterlife Church Inc ($67k), Greensboro Urban Ministry ($28k), Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc ($25k).
- Does Whitener Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitener 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, Reynolds American Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Whitener Foundation based?
- Whitener Foundation is based in NC.
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