The Whiting Foundation

• The foundation's work fits organisations that write, publish or teach literature and the humanities, including high-school humanities, or that preserve documentary cultural heritage such as manuscripts and inscriptions, and its geographic focus is the whole United States and international.
• A typical request should sit within the $5,000 to $60,000 band, and since half of its grants are $20,000 or less, a request around $20,000 is well placed, though its largest grant was about $300,000.
• Literary Magazine Prizes give $10,000 to $20,000, and the Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress excludes self-help books, historical fiction, textbooks, books primarily for academics, books aimed at younger audiences and self-published books, so check the programme against these before applying.
• Most open applications go through Submittable, and deadlines are posted annually on its website, so confirm the programme and deadline there first.
• Because 91% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had already funded, a first-time applicant should expect a harder route and should look closely at how its themes match their work.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Cultural Emergency Response · Preservation of cultural heritage
  $301,0002024 tax year
• Institute of Classical Architecture & Art · High-school humanities
  $70,0002024 tax year
• Theatre for a New Audience · High-school humanities
  $70,0002024 tax year
• Words Without Borders · High-school humanities
  $65,0002024 tax year
• New-York Historical Society · High-school humanities
  $65,0002024 tax year
• Plato · High-school humanities
  $60,0002024 tax year
• Academy for Teachers · High-school humanities
  $60,0002024 tax year
• New York Public Library · High-school humanities
  $60,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.