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Pamela Steele White Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
19
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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96% of Pamela Steele White Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Pamela Steele White Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’18
10
’19
5
’20
14
’21
14
’22
15
’23
16
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 24
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Total assets, FY2023
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Pamela Steele White Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthScience & TechHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202319$27k26%
FY202220$35k45%
FY202124$44k67%
FY20206$32k0%
FY201913$43k46%
FY201811$36kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$988kEducation$109kArts & Culture$55kEnvironment$34kEmployment$15kHealth$14kHousing & Shelter$6kScience & Tech$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pamela Steele White Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMilton Academy: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMirabel Pictures: $43,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetNational Tropical Botanical Garden: $27,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $23,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Country Club Employee Education Fund Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPioneer Institute Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Spirit Community Farm Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carroll School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetV G C Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLa Scuola International School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Maritime Museuminc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fessenden School: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOceana Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity-Pawling School Corporation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDover Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 Valencia: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDexter Southfield Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdgartown Patrolmen's Association I: $350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · MacPherson Fund Inc · Hoerle Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Fidelity Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Pamela Steele White Family 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.

About Pamela Steele White Family Foundation

How much does Pamela Steele White Family Foundation give?
Pamela Steele White Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $27,750 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Pamela Steele White Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (80%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Pamela Steele White Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Milton Academy ($60k), Mirabel Pictures ($43k), National Tropical Botanical Garden ($27k).
Does Pamela Steele White Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pamela Steele 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 Pamela Steele White Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, MacPherson Fund Inc, Hoerle Foundation Inc.
Where is Pamela Steele White Family Foundation based?
Pamela Steele White Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 60 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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