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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
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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14
’21
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mirabel Pictures$6,000
The Country Club Employee Education$5,000
National Tropical Botanical Garden$3,000
Pioneer Institute$1,250
Phillips Exeter Academy$1,000
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
Cure Alzheimer's Fund$1,000
The Nature Conservancy$1,000
Wellwood Climate Research Central$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Horizonzs for Homeless Children: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 24 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$226k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+69%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MILTON ACADEMY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +158%
  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $23k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • OM
    Open Mind
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • EH
    Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -100%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
The Peak School

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
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Western New England University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $980,295 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMILTON ACADEMY: $60,000 · EducationMILTON ACAD…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $23,400 · EducationTHE EPIPHAN…THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE COUNTRY…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $8,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND…PIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · EducationPIONEER INS…PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $6,500 · Education+9 more: $10,250 · Education+9 moreMirabel Pictures: $43,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMass Genl-Dementia Caregiver Collab: $5,000 · OtherEarn Haddord Fund: $5,000 · OtherSymbiosis: $3,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,250 · OtherMV Hospital: $2,000 · OtherWe Own Tv Arthur: $2,000 · OtherSymbiosis Learning Center: $2,000 · OtherWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $2,000 · Other+25 more: $16,050 · OtherNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $27,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC: $4,500 · Housing & ShelterALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthHealthy Waltham Inc: $500 · Health
Philanthropy$982,295Education$130,650Arts & Culture$45,000Other$42,800Environment$29,000Housing & Shelter$4,500Health$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $980,295 over 1y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 IncMacPherson Fund IncHoerle Foundation IncThe Loring Wolcott & …Fidelity FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pamela Steele White Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pamela Steele White Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pamela Steele White Family Foundation?

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.

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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