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The Paul & Erika White Foundation at a glance

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The Paul & Erika 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.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$242kFood & Nutrition$117kHuman Services$114kCrime & Legal$74kHealth$64kCivil Rights$64kEducation$46kHousing & Shelter$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $113k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,536
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,453
DIRECT RELIEF$10,326
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LA$10,325
LEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER$10,319
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$10,300
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,250
EL JARDIN DE LA INFANCIA$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WILDFIRE RECOVERY$10,000
LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK$10,000
IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER$5,342
INTERNALTIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT$5,263
MY FRIENDS PLACE$5,182
CHRYSALIS$5,182
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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%J-SEI: $100 → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3k → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $3k → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $5k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 14%INTERNALTIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INTERNALTIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PRJECT: $5k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%MARYVALE: $2k → 14%MARYVALE: $1k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $3k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $3k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$840k · 47 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
5

Total granted

$840k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-15%

Still filing today

72%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +33%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +361%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • LD
    LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $530
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE
    one grant, 2021 · $515 · revenue -25%
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
Public Counsel

Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…

Crime & Legal
2
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County

As a public interest law firm, NLSLA changes lives and transforms communities. Through a combination of individual representation, high impact litigation, and public policy advocacy, NLSLA combats the immediate and long-lasting effects of…

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3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
7
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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8
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
9
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
10
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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11
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
12
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is South Bay Families Connected. 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

40 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. 40 of the 57 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
23/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $60,250 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKLas Familias Del Pueblo: $55,700 · OtherLas Familias Del PuebloMY FRIENDS PLACE: $32,182 · OtherMY FRIENDS PLACECHRYSALIS: $27,009 · OtherCHRYSALISIndividual grant recipient: $16,714 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $14,663 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,020 · OtherCHLA - CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LA: $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WILDFIRE RECOVERY: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Other+16 more: $45,162 · Other+16 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $56,399 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…International Rescue Committee INC: $51,436 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $8,725 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,833 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $56,650 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE W…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $21,266 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL RE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,250 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $9,168 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCE…DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $7,800 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S…PATH: $7,210 · Human ServicesPATHNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $6,180 · Human Services+3 more: $6,770 · Human Services+3 moreLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $47,792 · Civil RightsLEARNING RIGHTS…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $23,948 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGR…CASA OF LOS ANGELES: $17,540 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANG…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,450 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE I…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $12,146 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEF…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $57,050 · HealthPARTNERS IN …PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $18,069 · HealthPLANNED PARE…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $13,000 · HealthChildren's H…HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,020 · HealthJARDIN DE LA INFANCIA: $20,000 · EducationVALUE SCHOOLS: $18,000 · EducationSouth Bay Families Connected: $3,613 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $3,095 · EducationNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,813 · Environment
Other$291,700International$179,393Human Services$125,294Civil Rights$116,876Health$96,139Education$44,708Environment$23,313

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $60,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $57,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $56,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $56,399 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLas Familias Del Pueblo: $55,700 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $51,436 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $47,792 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $23,948 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $21,266 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJARDIN DE LA INFANCIA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $18,069 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALUE SCHOOLS: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $17,540 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $12,146 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $9,168 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $8,725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $8,176 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,833 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $7,210 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $6,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $5,342 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCharity Navigator: $4,096 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bay Families Connected: $3,613 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $3,095 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $3,020 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYVALE: $2,574 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,092 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ-SEI INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Las Familias Del Pueblo ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JARDIN DE LA INFANCIA ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds VALUE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Immigrant Defenders Law Center ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Paul & Erika White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul & Erika White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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How do I get to The Paul & Erika White Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Paul & Erika White 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 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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