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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mirabel Pictures | $6,000 |
| The Country Club Employee Education | $5,000 |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden | $3,000 |
| Pioneer Institute | $1,250 |
| The Carroll School | $1,000 |
| La Scuola Intrenational School | $1,000 |
| High Spirit Community Farm | $1,000 |
| Symbiosis | $1,000 |
| Horizonzs for Homeless Children | $1,000 |
| New England Conservatory | $1,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $1,000 |
| Wellwood Climate Research Central | $1,000 |
| Cure Alzheimer's Fund | $1,000 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $1,000 |
| Alliance For Women Executives | $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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
MILTON ACADEMY3× · 2018–2020 · $60k · revenue +19%- NTNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +158%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC5× · 2018–2022 · $23k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- BBBig Brothers Big Sistersone grant, 2022 · $1k
- OMOpen Mindone grant, 2021 · $1k
- OWOld Whaling Churchone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Education and Research
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 60 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mirabel Pictures ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds V G C FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA SCUOLA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
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 Pamela Steele 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% 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.
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