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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 FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$217kHuman Services$168kEducation$147kAnimals$99kArts & Culture$62kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$27kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YOKEFELLOW CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$3,000
CALDWELL COUNTY PREGANCY CARECENTER$3,000
BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION$3,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOY'S TOWN: $500 → 12%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $1k → 16%GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $500 → 16%GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $200 → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $200 → 16%WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $4k → 16%WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $3k → 16%WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $2k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $2k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $1k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $200 → 16%SHELTER HOME OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $500 → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $8k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NE
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 61 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
24

Total granted

$798k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+28%

Still filing today

41%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GU
    GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +38%
  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • BC
    BETHEL COLONY CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF W PASCO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +28%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolina Animal Network

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…

Animals
2
Promoting Animal Welfare in North Carolina

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…

Animals
3
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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4
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

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.

Animals
5
Pisgah Animal Welfare Society Inc
Animals
6
Save a Pet Rescue Adoption and Transport Inc

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…

Animals
7
Rustys Rescue Ranch Inc

Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina

Animals
8
Foothills Humane Society Inc

The society's mission is to shelter, prevent cruelty and adopt animals and to educate the public about responsible animal ownership.

Animals
9
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
10
Spca of Tennessee

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…

Animals
11
Spca of Northeastern North Carolina

The organization provides shelter for homeless, abused, and abandoned animals. the shelter also provides an opportunity for adoption of these animals

Animals
12
Dorchester Paws

Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of the Piedmont Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC-GREENSBORO: $86,766 · OtherUNC-GREENSBOROAMERICAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $72,500 · OtherAMERICAN CHILDREN'S HOMEWATERLIFE CHURCH INC: $67,200 · OtherWATERLIFE CHURCH INCDUNCAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $62,000 · OtherDUNCAN BAPTIST CHURCHJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FD: $43,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FDYOKEFELLOW CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $32,000 · OtherCALDWELL COUNTY PREGANCY CARECENTER: $30,000 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $26,052 · OtherCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY: $23,000 · Other+58 more: $208,603 · Other+58 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $23,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOC…Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $15,137 · AnimalsBlue Ridge…RUFF LOVE FOSTER CARE AND DOG RESCUE: $14,000 · AnimalsRUFF LOVE …SISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE IN: $13,000 · AnimalsSISTER KIT…Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals: $4,000 · Animals+5 more: $7,650 · Animals+5 moreGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $27,592 · Human ServicesTHE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC: $8,500 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $6,700 · Human ServicesGUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $1,900 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $24,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $750 · Food & NutritionBIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $14,500 · PhilanthropyHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,650 · EducationFRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN INC: $7,000 · Community Improvement
Other$651,121Animals$76,787Human Services$49,192Food & Nutrition$25,250Philanthropy$14,500Education$11,650Community Improvement$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $27,592 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $15,137 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRUFF LOVE FOSTER CARE AND DOG RESCUE: $14,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSISTER KITTEN ANIMAL RESCUE IN: $13,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC: $8,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN INC: $7,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $6,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $4,148 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENSBORO BEAUTIFUL INC: $3,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRED DOG FARM ANIMAL RESCUE NETWORK: $1,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharlies Angels Animal Rescue: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConserving Carolina: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals ↗
  • Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PASCO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Reynolds American Fou…Duke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Amg Charitable Gift F…David and Claudia Bab…Bernhardt Furniture F…Broyhill Family Found…Smith Richardson Foun…Grace Jones Richardso…The Community Foundat…The Coffey Foundation…
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Whitener Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitener Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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