· Private foundation
Whitney Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS & FEDERATION | $6,000 |
| PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| CHABAD CHAI OF SOUTH TAMPA | $5,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,750 |
| ANIMALS ANGELS USA | $3,750 |
| NOAHS LOST ARK EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,750 |
| FARM SANCTUARY INC | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE | $3,750 |
| MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE | $3,750 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER | $3,750 |
| RETURN TO FREEDOM | $3,750 |
| WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $3,750 |
| REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY | $3,750 |
| JOYCE'S VOICES FOR CATS | $3,750 |
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 (FY17–19, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 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 FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whitney Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitney Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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