· Private foundation
Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+14 grants · $71M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS YMCA | $19,000,000 |
| CROSSROADS YMCA | $14,000,000 |
| PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $10,871,000 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| SHELBY COMMUNITY PARK FOUNDATION | $4,423,200 |
| MULTI AGENCY ACADEMIC COOP | $4,000,000 |
| NW INDIANA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY | $2,500,000 |
| LEGACY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| LEGACY FOUNDATION | $1,248,528 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NW INDI | $1,000,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $800,000 |
| CROSSROADS YMCA | $755,483 |
| PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $119.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CYCROSSROADS YMCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120M · revenue +81% · 60% of their budget
- FHFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20M · revenue +56% · 90% of their budget
- BSBig Shoulders Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF LOWELLone grant, 2023 · $3.5M
- BABULLDOG ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -98% · 49% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
The Foundation supports the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance, Inc. and its member community foundations through special initiatives that support or expand philanthropy in Indiana.
The greater indianapolis chamber of commerce foundation's mission is to encourage, aid or promote educational or charitable organizations' endeavors or economic development activities and to operate for the benefit of the charitable,…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legacy Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marian Wayside Shrine Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BULLDOG ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Self Employment Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN WAYSIDE SHRINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Pethood International ↗
- Who funds MITCH DANIELS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds PLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: John W Anderson Foundation · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Quality Connection · The John & Ann Barney Family Foundation Inc · Sourlis Irrevocable Charitable Trust · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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