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Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$250
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM$250
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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; 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 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. 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherCHANDLER COMPADRES INC: $500 · OtherTRANSPLANT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE 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 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 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 budgetCHANDLER COMPADRES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPLANT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edythe Fairbanks Whiteman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Chamber Music Northwest: 3% 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, 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.
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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 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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