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Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$101kHuman Services$18kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$15kEducation$14kEnvironment$5kPublic Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$400
Median grant
2
States reached
$225k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHANDLER SERVICE CLUB$6,550
UA FOUNDATION - ERASMUS CIRCLE$1,500
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$400
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM$250
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $400 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 6 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$52k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • CS
    CHANDLER SERVICE CLUB
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +28%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +109%
  • NC
    North Coast Land Conservancy Inc
    2× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • VH
    VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -33%
  • TH
    THE HEARD MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +100%
  • SD
    SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +64%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

2
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

3
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

4
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
7
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
8
Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Inc

To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.

Health
9
Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Arizona Science Center

To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.

Arts & Culture
12
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Humane Society. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATIONCHANDLER SERVICE CLUB — $14,000 · Community ImprovementCHANDLER SER…SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O…STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR…THE HEARD MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD…CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST — $3,750 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER M…+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $10,914 · EducationTHE FAIRBANKS HOUSE — $3,474 · OtherUA FOUNDATION - ERASMUS CIRCLE — $3,000 · OtherEARTH & OCEAN ARTS FESTIVAL — $600 · OtherTRANSPLANT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $500 · OtherCHANDLER COMPADRES INC — $500 · OtherARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · OtherHospice of the Valley — $400 · Other+3 more — $600 · OtherNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc — $5,250 · Environment
Health$100,000Community Improvement$19,000Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$14,000Education$10,914Other$11,074Environment$5,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANDLER SERVICE CLUB — $14,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $10,914 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc — $5,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPLANT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHANDLER COMPADRES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc6% of income from government
  • Chamber Music Northwest3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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