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Tess White Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 13
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$969k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Tess White Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$38k43%
FY20244$26k0%
FY20234$26k25%
FY20227$38k43%
FY20218$42k13%
FY20209$56k56%
FY201913$65kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$55kYouth Development$47kHuman Services$44kFood & Nutrition$43kHealth$25kEducation$23kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CA
VA
NC
DC
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tess White Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOne Man's Treasure: $55,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForever Families Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVogel Alcove: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Valley Bank Community: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Womens Job Corp: $3,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetIrving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Tess White Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tess 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.

About Tess White Foundation Inc

How much does Tess White Foundation Inc give?
Tess White Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $38,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Tess White Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (19%), Youth Development (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Tess White Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: One Man's Treasure ($55k), Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children ($25k), North Texas Food Bank ($15k).
Does Tess White Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tess White Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tess White Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Tess White Foundation Inc based?
Tess White Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 27 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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