Whittaker Family Foundation
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to making a significant and lasting impact on the quality of children's lives and supporting various educational initiatives. Its mission encompasses caring for diverse communities, including Jews and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, and addressing health-related causes such as cancer treatment and research. The foundation funds a range of programs, including independent schools, out-of-school learning initiatives, and community service projects. It primarily supports organizations that focus on youth development, education, and health, reflecting its commitment to enhancing the well-being of children and underserved populations.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Established education, youth-development, or community-service organizations with demonstrable program impact and capacity to manage mid-size to large single grants.
Good Fit
- • A clear focus on children's services, education, or youth development.
- • Program scale and budget matching past grants (commonly $25K–$50K, with occasional larger awards).
- • Regional relevance to states previously funded (notably CT and FL) or a record of measurable impact that attracts proactive funder selection.
- • Existing relationships or introductions to the foundation's officers or to organizations already funded.
Geography
The 2023 grants spanned six states; the foundation's home state received about 31% of dollars while 69% went to out-of-state recipients, with one state (FL) receiving 50% of total giving.
Recipient Variety
In the latest year the foundation made nine grants to nine distinct organizations across multiple mission areas (education, health, faith-based, community), which indicates a moderate spread of independent recipients despite heavy dollar concentration among the top few.
New Applicants
The foundation explicitly marks funding as 'only preselected' and the filing shows no public application route; while 2023 funded many new organizations relative to 2022, those appear to have been proactively chosen rather than the result of an open solicitation.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
