· Private foundation
Whitman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATRONS OF EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTS | $20,000 |
| CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY | $10,000 |
| VNHELP | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE WINNICK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $2,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| KQED | $1,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $718 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Whitman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 49%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPATRONS OF EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTSINC8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +119%
- VHVietnam Health Education & Literature Projects8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +44%
- PLPacific Links Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PPPLYMOUTH PRESCHOOL OF PLYMOUTH CONREGATIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TBTHE BATTERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -30%
- TSTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +68%
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.
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTSINC ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Health Education & Literature Projects ↗
- Who funds Pacific Links Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whitman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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