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Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

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

VT
NH
NY
PA
CA
VA
DE
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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…

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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…

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5
Boston Architectural College

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $200 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whittington Seven Oaks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: 14% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College: 1% of income from government
  • Tower Hill School Association: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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