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Paul J 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Public Benefit$255kEducation$125kArts & Culture$70kHealth$40kAnimals$20kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$10kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$391k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HODAG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MINNESOTA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
BIJOU THEATRE$5,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%MINNESOTA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$450k · 5 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$450k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+60%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHealthPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • WP
    WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue -14% · 28% of their budget
  • HS
    HODAG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue -47%
  • DW
    DYLAN WITSCHEN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • AS
    ART STARTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +41%
  • TF
    THREE FIRES CULTURE & EDUCATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SB
    SUNNYSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
3
Southwest Environmental Center

To promote and protect Wildlife

4
Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

Dedicated to provide support and assistance to refuge programs and to enhance awareness of and appreciation for the willapa national wildlife refuge

Animals
5
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
6
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
7
Spirit of Wenatchee
Education
8
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Empower Wisconsin Foundation Inc

Empower Wisconsin Foundation's mission is to educate both the public and leaders of grassroots initiatives on criminal justice reform, educational choice, limited government, freedom of speech, transparency in government and private…

10
Whitetails Unlimited Washington Cou Chapter 9362

To support safety & disabled hunter programs in washington cty, wisconsin

11
North American Wolf Foundation Inc

Protect the wolf in the wild through education and exposure.

Animals
12
Alaska Chapter of Delta Waterfowl Foundation

Wildlife Conservation

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wreaths Across America and the most unlike its peers is Wausau Pilot and Review Corporation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW CORPORATION — $250,000 · EducationWAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW CORPORATIONHODAG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyHODAG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCDYLAN WITSCHEN FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyDYLAN WITSCHEN FOUNDATIONART START — $45,000 · OtherART STARTTHREE FIRES CULTURE & EDUCATION SOCIETY — $20,000 · OtherTHREE FIRES CULTUR…SUNNYSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherSUNNYSIDE BAPTIST …BIJOU THEATRE — $5,000 · OtherBIJOU THEATREWreaths Across America — $5,000 · OtherWreaths Across Ame…Something Cool Inc — $3,000 · Other+3 more — $6,300 · Other+3 moreSERENDIPITY FARM — $20,000 · AnimalsDucks Unlimited Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance — $5,000 · Health
Education$250,000Philanthropy$160,000Other$89,300Animals$20,000Environment$20,000Human Services$10,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW CORPORATION — $250,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetHODAG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetART START — $45,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDYLAN WITSCHEN FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWreaths Across America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $2,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

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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 Paul J 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Paul J White Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul J 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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