Funder Standing / Joseph B Whitehead Foundation

Joseph B Whitehead Foundation

GA · EIN 586001954 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

18 of 40 organizations Joseph B Whitehead Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 44.9%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
44.9%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$500,000
Range $100,000 – $20,000,039
Repeat-dollar share
78.3%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta$20,000,039
United Way of Greater Atlanta$19,723,018
Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charitiesnew$10,000,000
The Salvation Armynew$7,000,000
Wellspring Livingnew$4,200,000
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$4,000,011
Ser Familianew$3,000,000
Atlanta Community Food Banknew$2,000,001
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta$2,000,000
Hillsidenew$2,000,000
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta fbo redefinED Atlanta$1,000,000
Partnership Against Domestic Violencenew$1,000,000
Georgia Family Connection Partnership$950,000
Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement$900,000
Communities in Schools of Georgia$800,000
Global Village Projectnew$750,000
Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education$650,000
Georgia CASA$600,000
Georgia State University Research Foundation$500,000
Horizons Atlanta$500,000
Teach for America - Metro Atlanta$500,000
Nobis Works Incnew$500,000
Good Samaritan Health Center$400,000
Open Doors$400,000
Voices for Georgia's Children$350,000

Showing the 25 largest of 40 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Joseph B Whitehead Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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