· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of Michael Bright White Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Bright School | $13,900 |
| Longue Vue House & Gardens | $11,500 |
| University of Virginia | $10,000 |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $10,000 |
| Sartor Research Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Hyperbaric Institute | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Children's Hospital | $10,000 |
| LOUISIANA LANDMARK SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| Vineyard Preservation Trust | $10,000 |
| Greater New Orleans Foundation | $7,500 |
| Georgetown University | $5,000 |
| Cardigan Mountain School | $5,000 |
| Clark County Historical Society | $5,000 |
| WYES | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BSBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF5× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +178%
- PBPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +28%
- CMCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- GUGeorgetown University-Louis Angioletti Scholarshipone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TRT Rodney Crowley Memorial Scholarshipone grant, 2021 · $15k
- GSGood Shepherd Parishone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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…
The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization whose mission is to partner with communities, institutions, and individuals to explore louisiana's past, reflect on our present, and imagine our future.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
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…
The new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Louisiana art & science museum seeks to enhance the understanding and appreciation of art and science for general audiences and students by presenting unique, educational and entertaining programming that encourages discovery, inspires…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The mission of new orleans & company is to inspire, promote and encourage travel to our city for the economic, social and community benefit of new orleans and its people. through marketing, public relations, direct sales to leisure…
To further the interest in the history of pharmacology and promote its further development for the benefit of the general public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woman's Exchange Dba Hermann-Grima Gallier Historic House and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Passion Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HYPERBARIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds HEART OF PASSION INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAMI NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
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 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.