Texas · Private foundation
Michael Bright White 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.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Michael Bright White Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $132k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $108k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $96k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $77k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $87k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $31k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $18k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $11k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright School for the Deaf | $130,215 | 5 | 9% |
| Pro Bono Publico Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Louisiana Landmarks Society Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Andrews Episcopal School | $14,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Longue Vue House & Gardens | $11,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hyperbaric Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cardigan Mountain School | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael Bright White Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Zemurray Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Thomas B Favrot Jr Family Fund · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Shlenker Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Michael Bright White Family Foundation with peer funders
About Michael Bright White Family Foundation
- How much does Michael Bright White Family Foundation give?
- Michael Bright White Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $139,920 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michael Bright White Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Michael Bright White Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bright School for the Deaf ($130k), Pro Bono Publico Foundation ($40k), Louisiana Landmarks Society Inc ($20k).
- Does Michael Bright White Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael Bright White Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael Bright White Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda, Baptist Community Ministries, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.
- Where is Michael Bright White Family Foundation based?
- Michael Bright White Family Foundation is based in TX.
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