· Private foundation
Howard & Betty 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $597k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $333,333 |
| HOPE UNLIMITED | $130,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $120,000 |
| YOUTH REACH | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOESHIP | $30,000 |
| HOPE INSITIUTE | $30,000 |
| PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $26,000 |
| PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Mercy Ships International8× · 2017–2025 · $627k · revenue +251%- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +59%
- RCRiekes Center for Human Enhancement7× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HUHOPE UNLIMITED INT'Lone grant, 2017 · $126k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $17k
- MAMP ATHERTON ED FDNone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
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.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.
The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
Provide relief to the poor and distressed by sharing the love of god in word and deed, we accomplish this through mercy missions, leadership training and community outreaches.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds YOUTHREACH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Riekes Center for Human Enhancement ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds Pets In Need ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN 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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Floyd Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard & Betty White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Betty White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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