· Private foundation
Whitney Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS & FEDERATION | $6,000 |
| CHABAD CHAI OF SOUTH TAMPA | $5,000 |
| PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER | $3,750 |
| JOYCE'S VOICES FOR CATS | $3,750 |
| MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE | $3,750 |
| NOAHS LOST ARK EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,750 |
| WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $3,750 |
| FARM SANCTUARY INC | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY | $3,750 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,750 |
| ANIMALS ANGELS USA | $3,750 |
| JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE | $3,750 |
| DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS | $3,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +109%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +31%- AAAnimals' Angels Incorporated9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TJTAMPA JEWISH FEDERATION AND JCC INCone grant, 2020 · $7k
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SOUTH TAMPAone grant, 2019 · $5k
- VMVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Operate a nature center and wildlife sanctuary to provide educational programs for vistors, opportunities to aid in conversation efforts, and permanent care for the orphaned, confiscated, and non-releaseable wildlife that do not have the…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Animal care and rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwood Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animals' Angels Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NOAH'S LOST ARK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds RUTH ECKERD HALL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · The John a Rodger Jr Foundation Inc · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Whitney Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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