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Paul J White Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
PhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • 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
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.

1
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
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2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wreaths Across America; 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 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. 11 of the 16 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 THEATREColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance: $5,000 · OtherColorado Gynecolog…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 ServicesWreaths Across America: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Education$250,000Philanthropy$160,000Other$89,300Animals$20,000Environment$20,000Human Services$10,000Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWreaths Across America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $2,800 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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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 Paul J White Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul J White Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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