Skip to content

California · Private foundation

The Sheryl & Harvey 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.

$195k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$108,290
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$821k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving11$195k36%
FY20249$214k33%
FY20238$133k25%
FY20227$206k0%
FY20219$211k56%
FY20206$49kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$968kHuman Services$26kHealth$6kAnimals$6kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOld Globe Theatre: $511,290 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Museum of Art: $76,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTheater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe New Childrens Museum: $43,263 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Humane Society and Spca: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Lions Jazz Conservatory: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJewish Community Center of San Francisco: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPatrons of the Prado: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMiracle Babies: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Jolla Music Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 15.

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Kerr Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

Compare The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sheryl & Harvey 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.

About The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation

How much does The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation give?
The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $194,790 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Human Services (3%), Health (1%).
Who are The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Old Globe Theatre ($511k), The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association ($120k), The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles ($95k).
Does The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Kerr Family Foundation.
Where is The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation based?
The Sheryl & Harvey White Foundation is based in CA.

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 21 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Sheryl & Harvey White’s filings →

More from the funding graph