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Preston & Catharine White 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of PRESTON & CATHARINE WHITE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHKD | $75,000 |
| EVMS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETY UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| VA BUSINESS HIGHER EDUCATION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| VA TECH ATHLETIC FUND SOCCER 2024 | $10,000 |
| VA TECH ATHLETIC FUND WOMENS FOUR BASES 2024 | $10,000 |
| HOKIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| VA TECH ATHLETIC FUND LAX | $10,000 |
| E3 ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT | $5,000 |
| GALILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCH PIPE ORGAN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +53%- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +47%
- TMTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- VTVA TECH ATHLETIC FUND FRONT COURT 2024one grant, 2023 · $50k
- VRVT REACH FOR EXCELLENCEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- VTVA TECH ATHLETIC FUND WOMENS FRONT CT 2024one grant, 2023 · $40k
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 mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
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.
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To connect people to the marine environment, inspiring a more sustainable future. we aspire to be a driver in conservation, education, tourism, and sustainability, leading the charge to save wildlife and their ecosystems.
The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 75 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACDS INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Goode Family Foundation · Edwin S Webster Foundation · Sentara Health · Kenneth a Hall and Patricia a Hall Charitable Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Blocker Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Community 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 Preston & Catharine White 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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