· Private foundation
Roger W White Sr 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Roger W White Sr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Northern New York Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Roger W White Sr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $20k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC | $2,000 |
| CYC JUNIOR DIVISION | $1,000 |
| VERMONT ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VAVERMONT ACADEMY2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +92%
- CJCYC JUNIOR DIVISION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +15%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.
The mission of the old york historical society is to preserve and promote the history of the york maine region for the education and enjoyment of the public.
To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Education and preservation of local historic sites
Museum for the acquisition, conservation and exhibition of historical artifacts of st. lawrence county, new york.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Education and preservation of history.
To promote and encourage historical study and research relating to the adirondack park; to gather and disseminate historical information concerning the park; to collect and preserve all documents, books, and objects relating to the region;…
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CYC JUNIOR DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger W White Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger W White Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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