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Andrew White Family Foundation at a glance

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Andrew White Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$204kInternational$106kReligion$101kArts & Culture$43kYouth Development$13kHealth$7kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$7,056
Median grant
2
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL$17,750
THE STORY CHURCH$15,000
Individual grant recipient$7,056
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$1,000
AGAPE DEVELOPMENT$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 12 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$453k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+40%

Still filing today

33%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $107k
  • FL
    Family Legacy Missions International
    3× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue -49%
  • SC
    STORY CHURCH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $91k

Funded once

  • SL
    St Luke's United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • TS
    THE STORY
    one grant, 2020 · $23k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
3
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
4
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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5
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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6
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
8
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
9
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
10
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
11
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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12
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Malachi Destiny & Purpose. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL: $106,974 · OtherEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOLFamily Legacy Missions International: $105,748 · OtherFamily Legacy Missions InternationalSTORY CHURCH: $91,094 · OtherSTORY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $35,576 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Luke's United Methodist Church: $35,000 · OtherSt Luke's United Methodist ChurchRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $23,000 · OtherTHE STORY: $22,500 · Other+22 more: $50,850 · Other+22 moreLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $60,000 · EducationLAMAR HIGH SC…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $6,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES I…+1 more: $500 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE: $6,000 · PhilanthropyHelping a HeroOrg: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Pregnancy Help Center Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $275 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $250 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$470,742Education$66,500Youth Development$12,000Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$2,500Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$775

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $105,748 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $60,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Pregnancy Help Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrees For Houston: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINPRINT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping a HeroOrg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Development Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalachi Destiny & Purpose: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBo's Place: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKLEBERG-KENEDY COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Cockrell Foundati…Brazelton Family Foun…MD Anderson FoundationThe Elkins FoundationStoller FoundationStrake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Cockrell Foundation · Brazelton Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Stoller Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andrew White Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew White Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Andrew White Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Andrew White Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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