· Private foundation
Whitney Family 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $23,635 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,900 |
| YOUNG PEACEBULDERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SIGN FRACTURE CARE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $1,500 |
| PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER | $1,500 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,240 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $1,200 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY ORTHPEDIC SURGEONS | $1,000 |
| ECHO | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
49 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SFSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +49%
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES4× · 2018–2021 · $54k · revenue +20%
- PTPORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- BHBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +108%
- JMJumping Mouse Childrens Centerone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -2%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
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…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
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.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boiler Room. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 89 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 SIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PEACEBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds UTOPIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ECHHO ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN HELPING ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Jumping Mouse Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation 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: Jefferson Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · First Fed Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Entelco Foundation · I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · L S Shoen Foundation · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.