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C J White 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$38kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$600Environment$500Religion$400Animals$350Community Improvement$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,002
Median grant
2
States reached
$93k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KINKAID SCHOOL$5,150
RIO GRANDE SCHOOL$1,002
DUCHESNE ACADEMY$500
THE 100 CLUB$100
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 (FY22–22, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $100 → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 8 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$41k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+125%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +87%
  • TC
    THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +52%
  • TR
    THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • SB
    SAVE BUFFALO BAYOU
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500 · revenue -98%
  • TC
    THE CAEDMAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250
  • BB
    Buffalo Bayou Partnership Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +185%
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
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
2
Houston Zoo Inc

Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…

Animals
3
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
4
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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5
Sky Island Alliance

We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…

Environment
6
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
7
Bayou Preservation Association Inc

The mission of the bayou preservation association is to celebrate, protect and restore the natural richness of all our waterways through projects, activism, advocacy, collaboration and education.

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8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
11
Bayou Land Conservancy

To preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife in the geographical area that drains into lake houston.

Environment
12
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stewards of Wildlife Conservation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Save Buffalo Bayou. 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Kinkaid School Inc: $26,175 · EducationThe Kinkaid School IncRIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $5,502 · OtherRIO GRANDE SCHOOLDUCHESNE ACADEMY: $4,500 · OtherDUCHESNE ACADEMYBLUE BIRD CIRCLE CLINIC: $1,500 · OtherBLUE BIRD CIRCLE CLINICTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $1,252 · OtherTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL+8 more: $1,250 · Other+8 moreTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $1,500 · PhilanthropySAVE BUFFALO BAYOU: $500 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $250 · EnvironmentTHE 100 CLUB INC: $600 · Crime & LegalSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $100 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 · Health
Education$26,175Other$14,004Philanthropy$1,500Environment$750Crime & Legal$600Human Services$100Health$50

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $26,175 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $1,252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE BUFFALO BAYOU: $500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTEWARDS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 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.

  • Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE BUFFALO BAYOU ↗
  • Who funds STEWARDS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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.

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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 C J White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C J White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 19 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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