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The Ruth Angeline Whitley Memorial Foundation Inc

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$37kHealth$35kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$13kHuman Services$13kReligion$10kEnvironment$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bobby Nichols-Fiddlesticks Foundati$7,500
A Bridge to a Cure Foundation Inc$5,000
Jewish Education in Media Inc$5,000
Circle Program$2,000
Compassonate Care$2,000
Interlakes Community Caregivers Inc$2,000
Collaboratory$1,500
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 (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Interlakes Community Caregivers Inc: $2k → 9%Interlakes Community Caregivers Inc: $2k → 9%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 10 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$127k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+2619%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BN
    BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +33%
  • BT
    BRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +77%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • LK
    LAKE KANASATKA WATERSHED ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue ×27 · 26% of their budget
  • LM
    LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
North Shore Jewish Press Ltd

The mission of the jewish journal is to educate, inform, engage and connect the jewish community north of boston and beyond.

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2
Jewish Federation of Broome County Inc

To improve the quality of jewish life in the southern tier of new york state and to promote jewish identity and welfare, in israel and throughout the world.

Philanthropy
3
North Florida Botanical Society Inc

To establish, develop and maintain a botanical garden that celebrates the immense beauty and diversity of the earths flora.

Environment
4
Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech
5
The North Suburban Jewish Community Center Inc

The north suburban jewish community center develops and implements programs for the recreational, educational, cultural, physical and social needs of infants to seniors for the jewish and general north shore community.

—
6
Congregation Jewish Spiritual Shabbas Inc
Religion
7
Jcc Rockland Inc

JCC Rockland is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and continuity of Jewish life and to the preservation of Jewish heritage.

Human Services
8
Jewish Community of Greater Stowe

Provide religious, educational and community services to the congregation and additional persons in the community.

Religion
9
Seashore Gardens Foundation

The mission of seashore gardens foundation is to provide aid and support for the health care programs and supportive services provided on the atlas at seashore gardens campus.

Health
10
Breslov Florida Inc

Breslov Florida serves the South Florida Jewish Community with an outreach center that provides classes and programs, which are open to the public. Our center seeks to further the teachings of Reb Nachman from Breslov.

Human Services
11
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
12
North Shore Mikvah Association

To furnish a ritual bath (mikvah) for religious jewish women, as tradition dictates. to emerse themselves seven days after completion of their menstrual cycle.prior to having relations with their husbands.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Greenwich Jewish Study Group 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $37,250 · PhilanthropyBOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDAT…SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIO…CIRCLE PROGRAM: $13,000 · OtherCIRCLE PROGRAMThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc: $10,000 · OtherThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group I…Community Caregivers: $9,000 · OtherCommunity CaregiversCompassonate Care: $4,000 · OtherCompassonate CareSW Fl Community Fd: $4,000 · OtherSW Fl Community FdIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · HealthBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUND…JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCA…LAKE KANASATKA WATERSHED ASSOC: $5,000 · EnvironmentInterlakes Community Caregivers Inc: $4,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$44,250Other$43,000Health$28,000Arts & Culture$15,000Environment$5,000Human Services$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $37,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM: $13,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLAKE KANASATKA WATERSHED ASSOC: $5,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInterlakes Community Caregivers Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ruth Angeline Whitley Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth Angeline Whitley Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to The Ruth Angeline Whitley Memorial 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.

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 13 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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