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Martha Christine White Foundation at a glance

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Martha Christine 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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.

Arts & Culture$168kFood & Nutrition$65kReligion$59kPhilanthropy$50kHuman Services$41kEmployment$21kEducation$7kScience & Tech$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLAY COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES$15,000
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD$5,000
ASHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$4,000
CLY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$2,500
PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST$1,420
ISABEL ANDERSON COMER ARTS CENTER$500
ALABAMA GIVING$400
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Alabama 4-H Club Foundation: $2k → 15%HUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND: $72k → 17%ISABEL ANDERSON COMER MUSEUM: $1k → 18%ARC Of Calhoun & Cleburne Co: $5k → 19%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS: $3k → 13%Community Foundation of Greater Bham: $38k → 16%HUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND: $36k → 17%ISABEL ANDERSON COMER MUSEUM: $1k → 18%PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST: $1k → 13%Hugo Black Memorial Library Fund: $20k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS: $1k → 13%Hugo Black Memorial Library Fund: $20k → 17%Philanthropy Southeast: $680 → 13%Ashland First United Methodist Church: $18k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS: $640 → 13%Ashland First Methodist Church: $18k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS: $620 → 13%First United Methodist Church': $17k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS: $610 → 13%First United Methodist Church': $12k → 17%FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND: $6k → 17%First Assembly of God: $5k → 17%FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD INC ASHLAND AL: $5k → 17%First Assembly of God: $5k → 17%FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $5k → 17%FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $5k → 17%Hugo Black Memorial Library Fund: $5k → 17%CHRISTIAN LIFE CHURCH: $5k → 17%First Assembly of God: $5k → 17%First Assembly of God: $5k → 17%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND: $5k → 17%FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $5k → 17%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND: $5k → 17%ASHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $4k → 17%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND: $3k → 17%CLY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $3k → 17%ASHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 17%ASHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 17%Clay Co Dept of Human Resources: $15k → 17%Clay Co Dept of Human Resources: $15k → 17%CLAY COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES: $15k → 17%Clay Co Historical Society: $3k → 17%Clay Co Dept of Human Resources: $3k → 17%Clay Co Dept of Human Resources: $3k → 17%Clay Co Historical Society: $3k → 17%CLAY CO DEPT OF RESOURCES: $2k → 17%CLAY CO DEPT OF RESOURCES: $2k → 17%CLAY CO DEPT OF RESOURCES: $2k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Martha Christine White Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 79%.

Martha Christine White Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$299k · 11 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$299k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+27%

Still filing today

36%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • PS
    Philanthropy Southeast Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +62%
  • IA
    ISABEL ANDERSON COMER MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +128%
  • AG
    ALABAMA GIVING INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of Greater Bham
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • AF
    Ashland First Methodist Church
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • AF
    Ashland First United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
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
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation of Greater Bham: $38,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Greater BhamClay Co Dept of Human Resources: $36,000 · OtherClay Co Dept of Human ResourcesFIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $35,000 · OtherFIRST ASSEMBLY OF GODFirst United Methodist Church': $29,000 · OtherFirst United Methodist Church'Ashland First Methodist Church: $18,000 · OtherAshland First Methodist ChurchAshland First United Methodist Church: $18,000 · OtherAshland First United Methodist ChurchCLAY COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES: $15,000 · OtherCLAY COUNTY DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCESFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND: $9,500 · Other+12 more: $51,300 · Other+12 moreHUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INC: $153,073 · Arts & CultureHUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INC+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $9,010 · PhilanthropyALABAMA GIVING INC: $3,240 · Philanthropy
Other$249,800Arts & Culture$157,073Philanthropy$12,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INC: $153,073 over 5y, 92% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $9,010 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISABEL ANDERSON COMER MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER: $4,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetALABAMA GIVING INC: $3,240 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,500 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 HUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISABEL ANDERSON COMER MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martha Christine White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha Christine White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Martha Christine White Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Martha Christine White 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 24 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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