How much did Michael Bright White Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

Public Benefit$753kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEducation$8kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$3kHuman Services$1kOther$386k

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $15k
$10k–50k4 grants · $93k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

PRO BONO PUBLICO$30,000
The Bright School$28,000
University of Texas$25,000
LOUISIANA LANDMARK SOCIETY$10,000
COMPASS SCHOOL OF DALLAS$5,000
CITY PARK CONSERVANCY$2,500
AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE$2,500
HEARTS OF PASSION$1,500
EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC TRAINING$1,005
Herman-Grima Historic Houses$1,000
Cardigan Mountain School$1,000
Woodberry Forest School$500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+52%

Still filing today

36%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

PB
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +19%
FO
Friends of City Park
3× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +50%
CM
Cardigan Mountain School
2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%

Funded once

GU
Georgetown University-Louis Angioletti Scholarship
one grant, 2022 · $25k
TR
T Rodney Crowley Memorial Scholarship
one grant, 2021 · $15k
GS
Good Shepherd Parish
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education

New Orleans Geological Society Memorial

Education

University of New Orleans Research and

To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.

Health

New Orleans Culinary &

To create world-class culinary and hospitality facilities, programs, and research that drive workforce and economic development for the new orleans region.

Unclassified

Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

To inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans and its future.

Health

Lsu Real Estate and Facilities

The lsu real estate and facilities foundation encompasses all areas of facilities development, including campus master planning, project development, real estate transactions, design and construction and facilities operations, as well as…

Education

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

To promote the sports history of louisiana and its many accomplished athletes through the establishment and maintenance of a central hall of fame and the preservation of sports history and memorabilia.

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United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to all louisianans. the mission is to provide all louisianans with access to and an appreciation of their own rich,…

Arts & Culture

Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

Louisiana Bankers Patrick Spencerfisc

Banking education

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New York Road Runners Inc. 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$752,500Other$389,702Public Safety & Disaster$40,000Education$7,500Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$3,583Recreation & Sports$2,500

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Shell USA Company Foundation · Thomas B Favrot Jr Family Fund · Zemurray Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation Michael Bright White 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: University of Virginia.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541197326 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on University of Virginia, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Michael Bright White Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michael Bright White Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Michael Bright White Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michael Bright White Family Foundation?

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Michael Bright White Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michael Bright White Family Foundation?

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