· Private foundation
Whittington Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $16,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| SHELBY HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL | $500 |
| OASIS | $500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM | $300 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $250 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $250 |
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 (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC3× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +74%- CCCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +135%
- HIHAND IN PAW INC3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHATTANOOGA BALLETgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
Samford Universityone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +1%- GDGREAT DAY FUND CAMP GREYSTONEone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 48 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATTANOOGA BALLET ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Hamico Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Tucker Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Protective Life 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 Whittington Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.