Missouri · Private foundation
Whitmore Charitable Trust
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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Whitmore Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 11 | $51k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $64k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $66k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $63k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $59k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blue Barn Theatre | $37,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Omaha Theater Company | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Omaha Conservatory of Music | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opera Omaha Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners for Livable Omaha | $21,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Joslyn Castle Trust Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Durham Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blue Barn Theatre | $37,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Omaha Theater Company | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Omaha Conservatory of Music | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opera Omaha Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners for Livable Omaha | $21,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Joslyn Castle Trust Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Durham Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Community College Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Kindair at the Benson Theatre | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nebraska Brass Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Omaha Area Youth Orchestras | $9,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Voices of Omaha | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Whyarts Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Omaha Performing Arts Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Union for Contemporary Art Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whitmore Charitable Trust 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: The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Nac Development Corporation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Paul and Oscar Giger Foundation Inc · The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Whitmore Charitable Trust
- How much does Whitmore Charitable Trust give?
- Whitmore Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $50,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Whitmore Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Health (11%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Whitmore Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Omaha Community Playhouse ($45k), Blue Barn Theatre ($37k), Omaha Theater Company ($35k).
- Does Whitmore Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whitmore Charitable Trust 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 Whitmore Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation.
- Where is Whitmore Charitable Trust based?
- Whitmore Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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