Delaware · Private foundation
Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $345k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $277k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $249k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $272k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $207k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $199k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $182k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $140k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $320,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Delaware | $312,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Tower Hill School Association | $126,235 | 5 | 0% |
| American Philosophical Society | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $53,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Jobs for America's Graduates Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspiritec Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Upland Country Day School | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Longwood Gardens Inc | $4,052 | 2 | 0% |
| Goldey-Beacom College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $320,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Delaware | $312,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Tower Hill School Association | $126,235 | 5 | 0% |
| American Philosophical Society | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $53,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Jobs for America's Graduates Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspiritec Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Upland Country Day School | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Longwood Gardens Inc | $4,052 | 2 | 0% |
| Goldey-Beacom College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Kalmar Nyckel Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Proctor Academy | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgetown Day School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation
- How much does Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation give?
- Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $345,026 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (48%), Education (42%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($320k), University of Delaware ($312k), Tower Hill School Association ($126k).
- Does Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation based?
- Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation is based in DE.
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