FAQ

Applying for Funding

    • Individuals: We do not make grants directly to individuals. Scholarships are awarded by participating educational and senior care institutions. If you are seeking a scholarship or senior care assistance, please contact your institution for information about Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation support.

    • Institutions not currently receiving Foundation support: We rarely add new institutions to our grants programs. For more information, contact Carrie Conway or Emily Patteson.

    • Institutions currently receiving Foundation support: Please review the information for Current Grantees.

  • Our founder, Conkey Pate Whitehead, required that Foundation funds be awarded only to female Christian women who demonstrate financial need and live in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia. We recommend that institutions review the conditions upon which our grants are made to ensure funds are awarded properly. Conditions statements are available here for educational institutions and here for senior care institutions.

  • Grant decisions are made by our Board of Trustees and grant award letters are mailed in mid-February. For educational institutions, we consider your SACS accreditation status, the strength of your leadership, enrollment and financial health, academic program quality, commitment to serving students with financial need, and student success factors. We are careful to consider the context in which each institution operates and do our best to direct resources to schools that successfully serve students with significant need. 

    For senior care institutions, we consider your quality of care, commitment to serving seniors with financial need, fiscal health, and the strength of your leadership. Our investments are guided by an interest in supporting institutions that provide high-quality, compassionate care to individuals regardless of their financial means.

    For all institutions, the Foundation values transparency and good stewardship. Institutions that fail to meet our eligibility and reporting requirements may see their funding decrease or may not receive further support.

  • The Lettie Pate Whitehead, Joseph B. Whitehead and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations were founded by members of the Whitehead family. These Foundations share an office and a staff with the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, though each is led by an independent Board of Trustees. Robert W. Woodruff was a good friend and trusted advisor to Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans, and their Foundations agreed on a common administrative arrangement to allow for greater flexibility and efficiency in responding to community needs.

  • Grants from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation are limited to Georgia’s research universities. Independent colleges in Georgia and schools in Virginia that Mrs. Evans supported during her life may be eligible for a grant from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation. Please review each foundation’s grant guidelines to determine if your request is a fit for funding.

Current Grantees

  • Reporting requirements are specified in your grant award letter and listed on our Current Grantees page. All requirements must be submitted online using our grant portal. Please do not email or send hard copies unless otherwise instructed.

  • All information is kept confidential. We use the information internally to ensure compliance with eligibility requirements, inform future funding decisions, and evaluate the effectiveness of our grants programs.

  • Please designate a single point of contact to manage your institution’s account and oversee all submissions to the Foundation. This contact does not need to be the person who signs letters. Institutions often designate a development or financial aid officer to manage their grant portal account. Please note you may share login information with other staff so different departments can complete different requirements.

  • Notify Emily Patteson to transfer your institution’s grant portal account to your email address. This is not a change you can make on your own.

  • Typically, the username is the email address of your institution’s primary contact. Some institutions choose to use a general email address for their grant portal account. You should reach out to your institution’s primary contact to find out what credentials are used to log in to the account.  

    If you do not know your institution’s primary contact or the correct username, you may email Emily Patteson or help.

  • On the grant portal login page, click “Forgot Password?” below the Password field. You will receive a temporary password from mail@grantapplication.com (be sure to add to your safe senders list). The temporary password will expire 48 hours after you click “Forgot Password?” If more than 48 hours have passed, click “Forgot Password?” again.

  • Check to make sure you are the primary contact for your institution. Only the primary contact will be able to see and submit requirements. Once you have logged in with the credentials of the primary contact, click the “Requirements” tab to see grant acceptance letters, scholarship reports, statistical reports or senior care reports assigned to your institution. Typically, these requirements will be available in the grant portal in June of each year.

    New grant request letters do not appear automatically in the portal. You must click this link to access this requirement. 

    If you open or start a requirement and exit without submitting, you must return to the grant portal, click the “Requirements” tab and go to the dropdown menu on the right side of the screen to change the view to “In Progress Requirements.”

  • Notify Emily Patteson to republish your report to the grant portal for resubmission. You will be unable to resubmit on your own.