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Rodney L White Foundation Inc

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$370k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHuman Services$698kHealth$645kPublic Benefit$535kCrime & Legal$505kArts & Culture$444kEnvironment$299kScience & Tech$291kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $368k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $485k
  • $250k+1 grant · $370k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC$370,000
KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC$100,000
HAYGROUND SCHOOL$100,000
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL$75,000
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC$60,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS CORPORATION$50,000
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA$50,000
SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION$50,000
BAHAMAS REEF ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
BRAVE HOUSE INC$25,000
REPRESENTUS EDUCATION FUND$25,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC$25,000
XAVIER MISSION$25,000
PUTNEY SCHOOL$20,000
THE RED DOOR PLACE$20,000
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 (FY17–24, $865k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS: $25k → 9%PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $3k → 12%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS: $18k → 9%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS: $15k → 9%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS: $15k → 9%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5k → 20%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%RED DOOR PLACE: $40k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $3k → 20%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $3k → 11%THE RED DOOR PLACE: $20k → 17%THE RED DOOR PLACE: $20k → 17%THE RED DOOR PLACE: $20k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $60k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $60k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $60k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $60k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $50k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $50k → 17%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $50k → 17%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%NYC MESH: $5k → 17%KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC: $100k → 17%KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC: $100k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $3k → 17%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

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DE
AZ
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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.
$6.1M · 66 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
59

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • LR
    LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $530k · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $495k · revenue +53%
  • RE
    RepresentUs Education Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +27%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +5%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
3
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
4
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
5
The Ideal School of Manhattan

An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.

Education
6
Ie New York College

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Education
7
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
8
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
9
Fresh Air Fund

To provide nyc children from low-income families with cultural, recreational, and educational experiences at its camps and with volunteer host families and through year-round academic programs.

Recreation & Sports
10
The Episcopal School in the City of New York

The mission of the episcopal school is to provide a traditional early childhood education in a warm and welcoming environment, and to offer each child a strong foundation for ongoing education and for life. we seek to help each child…

Education
11
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pm Foundation Inc. 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

105 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. 105 of the 141 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/105
Grantees still filing
70/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $530,000 · OtherLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INCTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $495,000 · OtherTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $200,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $160,000 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $135,000 · OtherBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $285,000 · OtherBigelow Laboratory for Ocean SciencesMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $200,000 · OtherXAVIER MISSION INC: $165,000 · Other+86 more: $1,828,875 · Other+86 moreHAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $412,000 · EducationHAYGROUND SCHO…UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $270,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ …TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTRINITY EPISCO…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTUR…Fairleigh Dickinson University: $37,500 · Education+12 more: $69,000 · Education+12 moreROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $390,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW …KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesKIDS OPERATIN…RED DOOR PLACE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesRED DOOR PLAC…PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS INC: $72,600 · Human ServicesPETRUS FUND O…WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human Services+8 more: $75,000 · Human Services+8 moreSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $462,000 · Crime & LegalFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $30,000 · Crime & LegalRepresentUs Education Fund: $485,000 · Public BenefitSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $150,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LUDWIG FOUNDATION OF CUBA: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $49,340 · Arts & CultureST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $7,500 · Health
Other$3,998,875Education$963,500Human Services$877,600Crime & Legal$492,000Public Benefit$485,000Arts & Culture$371,840Health$307,500

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 budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $530,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $495,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $485,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $462,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetHAYGROUND SCHOOL INC: $412,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $390,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $285,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetXAVIER MISSION INC: $165,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $150,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $135,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY INC: $120,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRED DOOR PLACE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetYouth Service America: $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINORITY HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETRUS FUND OF YONKERS INC: $72,600 over 4y, 56% of budgetBRAVE HOUSE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetA J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $49,600 over 1y, 57% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetAcadia Family Center: $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY: $40,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $35,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKFIELD THEATRE FOR THE ARTS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LUDWIG FOUNDATION OF CUBA: $25,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetNEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHUDSONIA LIMITED: $22,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARBLE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPEN AND BRUSHINC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWest Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY TO FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
  • Who funds RED DOOR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Youth Service America ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MINORITY HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PETRUS FUND OF YONKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC INFLUENCERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Leon Levy Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey

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 Rodney L White Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodney L White Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Indian River Charter High School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Brookfield Theatre for the Arts Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Rodney L White Foundation Inc 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 141 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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