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Whitney Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$392kReligion$158kHuman Services$59kEnvironment$45kInternational$19kHousing & Shelter$16kPublic Benefit$14kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$23,635
Individual grant recipient$5,900
YOUNG PEACEBULDERS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SIGN FRACTURE CARE$2,000
PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER$1,500
PROJECT HOPE$1,500
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,240
FEED THE CHILDREN$1,200
AMERICAN ACADEMY ORTHPEDIC SURGEONS$1,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
ECHO$800
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center: $1k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center: $200 → 10%CHAIRTY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center: $500 → 10%Jefferson County Immigrant Rights A: $44k → 11%Jefferson County Immigrant Rights A: $6k → 11%Jefferson County Immigrant Rights A: $3k → 11%Jefferson County Immigrant Rights A: $700 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
DC
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$686k · 49 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
24

Total granted

$686k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +990%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $54k · revenue +20%
  • PT
    PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • BH
    BAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +108%
  • JM
    Jumping Mouse Childrens Center
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

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…

International
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
5
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
6
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Action Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
42/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $149,485 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHOLyCap: $44,000 · OtherOLyCapIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+60 more: $127,506 · Other+60 moreSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL: $289,900 · HealthSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL+3 more: $2,600 · HealthJEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $53,600 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesPORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER: $24,900 · Science & TechInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,400 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $3,230 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,100 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,890 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,000 · InternationalLATIN AMERICAN RELIEF FUND: $1,000 · International+1 more: $225 · InternationalYOUNG PEACEBUILDERS: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $4,600 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,150 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $2,400 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Environment+4 more: $525 · Environment
Other$350,991Health$292,500Human Services$56,100Science & Tech$24,900International$20,345Youth Development$12,600Environment$9,575

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL: $289,900 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $53,600 over 4y, 20% of budgetPORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER: $24,900 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,684 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG PEACEBUILDERS: $8,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECHHO ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN HELPING: $4,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKIND INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $3,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $3,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,890 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN RELIEF FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $780 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLYMPIC NEIGHBORS: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAZEN BOOSTER CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRUM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA: $480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $390 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Trails Coalition: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Jefferson Community FoundationWA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Whitney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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