The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation is a charity dedicated to the support of women in nine southeastern states. The Foundation devotes most of its resources to the Lettie Pate Whitehead scholarship program, which provides scholarship grants to schools and colleges for deserving female students. The Foundation also supports selected nursing homes and hospices in Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia serving the needs of elderly women.

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans' youngest son, Conkey Pate Whitehead, was born in Chattanooga, reared in Atlanta, and educated in local schools before matriculating at Yale University. He served as an officer of the Whitehead Realty Company and other family business enterprises. Influenced by his parents’ generous example, Conkey provided in his will for the creation of the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation as a memorial to his mother. The Foundation was chartered in 1946 for the aid and benefit of poor and needy Christian girls and women in nine specified states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation is a Georgia not-for-profit corporation governed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees. The Foundation shares a common administrative arrangement with the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.

The Foundation does not make grants to individuals. Applications for individual scholarship aid should be made directly to the institutions. All other correspondence, including inquiries from institutions eligible for Foundation support, should be directed to the President of the Foundation.

Contact: P. Russell Hardin, President

Financial Data (year ended 12/31/06)
Assets: $809,580,528
Grants paid in 2006: $21,639,800 for 214 grants
Most recent tax return:

Trustees
Dr. Herbert A. Claiborne, Jr., Chairman
Lyons Gray, Vice Chairman
Bolling P. Spalding

Alternate Trustee
Herbert A. Claiborne, III

Officers
P. Russell Hardin, President
J. Lee Tribble, Treasurer
Erik S. Johnson, Secretary
Elizabeth A. Smith, Grants Officer

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