· Private foundation
Whitman Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S METHODIST CHURCH | $4,950 |
| OAKDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,250 |
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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLST LUKES METHODIST CHURCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k
- OSOakdale School Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +56%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC2× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- OSOklahoma State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +44%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Military Heritage Foundation, DBA Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame Foundation, honors the men and women of Oklahoma, living and deceased, who serve or have served in the Uniformed Services of the United States with records of…
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
The university of oklahoma foundation is an independent charitable organization that facilitates and manages philanthropic gifts to support the university of oklahoma. with a culture of integrity, skill and persistence, we align the…
Advance osteopathic medical education, research, and patient care by financially supporting the operation and continued growth of oklahoma state university medical center.
How this is measured
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 13 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 Oakdale School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
How this is measured
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