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Sarah Lamade White 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM TRC | $5,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY YMCA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,075 |
| FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $3,030 |
| NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES (NWABA) | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| LEVITT PAVILION DENVER | $2,340 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $1,500 |
| ONE LIFE FOOD PANTRY | $1,059 |
| THE LEUKIMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,050 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $1,048 |
| LAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,040 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,039 |
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 (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGE3× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +21%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +140%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- LELIFE ENRICHMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
- FPFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF NEEDone grant, 2017 · $5k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +167%
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.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
As mandated by the federal older americans act and ohio law, the mission of the long term care ombudsman program is to seek the resolution of problems and advocate for the rights of the home care consumers and residents of long- term care…
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
The mission of the cheyenne animal shelter is to enhance the quality of life for animals and people through compassion, respect and education.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center and the most unlike its peers is Tabby Tails Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 64 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 LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SERVICES OF GEAUGA CO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Companions for Heroes ↗
- Who funds Harpers Playground ↗
- Who funds LAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TABBY TAILS CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON DEPOT INC JEFFERSON DEPOT VILLAGE ↗
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: The Firstenburg Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Sarah Lamade 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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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