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Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$345k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Science & Tech$953kEducation$832kCommunity Improvement$75kArts & Culture$57kHealth$30kEmployment$21kPhilanthropy$4kEnvironment$200
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
$16,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALK INSTITUTE$210,000
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY$50,000
NEMOURS CHILDRENS HEALTH$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$20,000
TOWER HILL SCHOOL$16,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
INSPIRITEC$5,000
LONGWOOD GARDENS$2,026
KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION$1,500
MORGAN LIBRARY MUSEUM$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOWER HILL SCHOOL: $55k → 10%UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4k → 6%THE CHESTER FUND: $75k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $115k → 11%INSPIRITEC: $5k → 22%SALK INSTITUTE: $221k → 11%MORGAN LIBRARY MUSEUM: $500 → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $200 → 14%JOBS FOR AMERICAS GRADUATES: $10k → 9%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $33k → 9%PROCTOR ACADEMY: $1k → 7%TOWER HILL SCHOOL: $25k → 10%LONGWOOD GARDENS: $2k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $105k → 11%INSPIRITEC: $1k → 22%SALK INSTITUTE: $210k → 11%GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $1k → 14%JOBS FOR DELAWARE GRADUATES: $5k → 9%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $20k → 9%THE PROCTOR FUND: $500 → 7%TOWER HILL SCHOOL: $16k → 10%LONGWOOD GARDENS: $2k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $50k → 22%SALK INSTITUTE: $193k → 11%TOWER HILL SCHOOL: $15k → 10%UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 6%AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 22%SALK INSTITUTE: $186k → 11%NEMOURS CHILDRENS HEALTH: $30k → 10%UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 6%SALK INSTITUTE: $48k → 11%TOWER HILL SCHOOL: $15k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $45k → 11%KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $112k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $21k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $80k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $35k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%GOLDEY-BEACOM: $10k → 10%GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NH
NY
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$1.8M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
EducationArts & CultureEmploymentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2019–2023 · $320k · revenue +28%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $312k · revenue +29%
  • TH
    TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHESTER FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • JF
    Jobs for America's Graduates Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JOBS FOR DELAWARE GRADUATES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALK INSTITUTE — $953,070 · OtherSALK INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $312,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARETHE CHESTER FUND — $75,000 · OtherTHE CHESTER FUND+6 more — $47,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $320,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $126,235 · EducationTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $53,385 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Midd…+5 more — $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 · Arts & CultureJobs for America's Graduates Inc — $10,000 · EmploymentLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $4,052 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $200 · Environment
Other$1,387,970Education$514,620Arts & Culture$55,000Employment$10,000Philanthropy$4,052Environment$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $320,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $312,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $126,235 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $53,385 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRITEC INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $4,052 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Seven Oaks 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • University of Delaware30% of income from government
  • Kalmar Nyckel Foundation14% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College1% of income from government
  • Tower Hill School Association0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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