Important Notice

2024 grant application forms are now available.

Please note changes to submission requirements.

NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE AUGUST 15th

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Welcome to The Claude R. and Ethel B. Whittenberger Foundation website. We hope this site will help you with any questions regarding our grant processes.

  • To all users accessing this site, please note the Foundation does not support activities outside of Idaho.
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photo courtesy of The Treasure Valley Family YMCA

Mission and Purpose

The Whittenberger Foundation currently gives priority to innovative and enriching projects that significantly improve the quality of life for children and young people. This focus carries forward Mrs. Whittenberger’s lifelong interest in the welfare of children as expressed in her Last Will and Testament.

Learn more about our history

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The Foundation’s areas of interest relating to children and young people are education, arts and culture, health, social welfare, recreation, and the environment.

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The Foundation prefers to support short-term projects. It will consider long-term projects that demonstrate a potential for matching funds or funding independent of Whittenberger funds.

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In evaluating grant requests, the Foundation considers other financial resources and looks for grant opportunities where Whittenberger funds will make a critical difference.

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photo courtesy of Girls on the Run Treasure Valley

If you would like to know more about the Whittenberger Foundation, please write to P.O. Box 1073, Caldwell, ID 83606-1073, or you may request more information by contacting us at  

Limitations on Grants

The Foundation supports activities in the geographic region of Southwest Idaho. Applicants whose operations are outside this region have an additional burden of establishing the merits of an application.

*If there are additional questions, please email us at  

The Foundation does not support the following:

  • No grants are awarded to individuals for political lobbying, voter registration, or political campaign purposes.
  • No single recipient may receive more than 20% of the distributable annual income.
  • Grants within the range of $5,000 to $10,000 are most common. Apart from a limited number of continuing commitments, grants for amounts in excess of $20,000 are rarely awarded.
  • The Board does not usually make more than one grant to the same organization within a twelve-month period.
  • Please do not apply until you have carefully reviewed this section on Limitations and the sections on Mission and Purpose and Recent Grants Awarded.