· Private foundation
The White Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
- $250k+2 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Andrews School | $265,000 |
| Providence Performing Arts Center | $250,000 |
| RI Philharmonic Orchestra and Music School | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $68,000 |
| Genesis Center | $25,000 |
| Community Prep School | $21,300 |
| Community Music Works | $17,000 |
| Trinity Repertory Company | $15,000 |
| East End Theatre | $12,500 |
| San Miguel School | $10,000 |
| Wheaton College | $10,000 |
| Sophia Academy | $10,000 |
| Rhode Island Council for the Humanities | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Sojourner House | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +31%- SAST ANDREW'S SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $880k · revenue +25%
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TWTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +9%
- TLThe Little Theatreone grant, 2017 · $49k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Our mission is to thrill and move our audiences, dancers, choreographers, supporters and staff with art and discipline. our vision is to continuously increase in passion and artistic excellence and strength, acheiving national and…
Firstworks' mission is to enrich the cultural, educational, and economic fabric of rhode island by engaging diverse audiences with world-class performing arts and education.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
Using innovative education practices as a catalyst for social change, highlander charter school ensures that all children have the opportunity and support necessary to meet their full potential.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The french american school of rhode islands (fasri) multilingual experience cultivates globally-minded, confident, creative learners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Performing Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Community String Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AS 220 ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds ON STAGE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Otto H York Foundation Inc · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family 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 White Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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.
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