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The Charles and Betty White Charitable 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$14kCrime & Legal$11kMembership Benefit$8kPhilanthropy$6kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$4kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHAPEL AT CROSSPOINT$5,500
FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS$500
EMERALD COAST THEATRE CO$500
SCENIC AMERICA$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARING AND SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON: $350 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$50k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+125%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCrime & LegalReligionAnimalsMembership BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • EC
    EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +41%
  • DC
    DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • FF
    FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • I1
    IMPACT 100 NWF
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Florida Watch Inc

Educating the public and promoting social welfare in florida by holding elected officials accountable and ensuring representation of their constituents.

Education
2
Southwest Florida Regional Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

To support the planning, delivery and coordination of high quality services to the hungry, homeless and those at-risk of homelessness in collier county.

Human Services
3
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc

To promote life safety, property protection, & resiliency by empowering the community with knowledge & resources for strengthening homes & safeguarding families from natural and man-made disasters.

Community Improvement
4
Florida Society of Association Executives Inc

Success for our members and our profession through connecting, learning, and leading.

5
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
6
Florida Forestry Association

To promote the responsible use of florida's forest resources

7
The Education Foundation of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Inc

Implementation of industry developed school-to-career programs through interaction with students, instructors and industry leaders.

8
Florida Coalition for Children Foundation Inc

To provide educational materials, training and information technology to agencies who work on behalf of florida's abused and neglected children and function as a service agency for the membership.

Human Services
9
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

10
Florida Council Against Sexual Violence Inc

Sexual violence shatters lives, wounds communities and perpetuates injustice. the florida council against sexual violence leads, informs and inspires the people of florida to create safe and just communities.

Health
11
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc

To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…

Environment
12
Florida Home Builders Association Inc

The mission of the florida home builders association is to create a climate in which the construction industry can prosper.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House of the Emerald Coast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Florida Federation of Garden Clubs 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHAPEL AT CROSSPOINT — $9,500 · OtherTHE CHAPEL AT CROSSPOINTIMPACT 100 OF NWFL — $5,100 · OtherIMPACT 100 OF NWFLIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GATHERING AT SANDESTIN — $1,500 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC — $2,250 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC+16 more — $8,975 · Other+16 moreEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $10,750 · Crime & LegalEMERALD COAST CHILD…DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC — $7,700 · Membership BenefitDESTIN CHARITY…FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC — $3,500 · EnvironmentSCENIC AMERICA — $250 · Environment+1 more — $100 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Public BenefitSINFONIA GULF COAST INC — $2,725 · Arts & CultureBilly Gray Ministries Inc — $2,500 · Religion
Other$30,825Crime & Legal$10,750Membership Benefit$7,700Environment$3,850Public Benefit$3,000Arts & Culture$2,725Religion$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $10,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINFONIA GULF COAST INC — $2,725 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBilly Gray Ministries Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC — $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARING & SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON INC — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCENIC AMERICA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCENIC WALTON INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The St Joe Community Foundation IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Dugas Family Foundation Inc · The Alys Foundationinc · The Emeril Lagasse Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Charles and Betty White Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Charles and Betty White Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Charles and Betty White Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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