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Whitham Family Foundation at a glance

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Whitham Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$760kFood & Nutrition$540kHousing & Shelter$160kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GROW AND LEARN CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 11%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $60k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $50k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $50k → 12%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2025 · $540k
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $410k · revenue -1%
  • PN
    PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $160k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • GL
    GROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
4
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School

Wyoming seminary inspires students to lead lives of integrity, purpose, and excellence by developing the critical skills and spirit of community necessary to succeed and serve in a global society.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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9
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…

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10
Colgate University

Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College; the most unlike its peers is Grow & Learn Childcare Center Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $540,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $125,000 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $410,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEREGIS UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITYCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $160,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE N…GROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGROW & LEARN…DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 · HealthTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$665,000Education$635,000Human Services$170,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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 budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $410,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $160,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 10 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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