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The White Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$996k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$1.8MEmployment$65kYouth Development$63kHealth$60kPhilanthropy$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$275,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$275,000
RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND MUSIC SCHOOL$100,000
COMMUNITY PREP SCHOOL$24,300
FIRSTWORKS$20,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS$20,000
THE LITTLE THEATRE OF FALL RIVER INC$18,000
EAST END THEATRE$15,000
NEW URBAN ARTS$12,000
NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET$12,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AS220$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CrossRoads RI: $5k → 14%Genesis Center: $25k → 14%Genesis Center: $25k → 14%Genesis Center: $15k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 34 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$6.4M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+40%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
  • SA
    ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +25%
  • RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +9%
  • TL
    The Little Theatre
    one grant, 2017 · $49k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
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
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
2
Ballet Ri

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Rhode Island Youth Theatre

Rhode island youth theatre is a non-profit educational theatre company that provides opportunites for youth to explore their interests and develop their theatre skills.

Arts & Culture
4
Providence Children's Museum

The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…

Arts & Culture
5
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
6
Providence Preparatory Charter School

The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.

Education
7
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
8
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
9
The Highlander Charter School

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.

Education
10
Seacoast Repertory Theatre

The seacoast repertory theatre is a non-profit, professional regional theater located in historic downtown portsmouth, nh. its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire through the power of live theater. this mission is achieved through…

Arts & Culture
11
Paul Cuffee School

Personal initiative, perserverance and social responsibility. our facility is committed to differentiated instruction and evidence-based practices that connect academic success to social-emotional learning.

Education
12
The Chorus of Westerly Inc

The Chorus of Westerly is a community based volunteer organization that provides musical education, presents various musical performances throughout the year and holds an annual children's workshop in choral music

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Performing Arts Center; the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Black Film Festival. 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

49 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. 49 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
26/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $1,155,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $697,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPPAC: $650,000 · OtherPPACIndividual grant recipient: $456,471 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $197,105 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $167,000 · Other+25 more: $498,042 · Other+25 morePROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1,275,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $450,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA…Trinity Repertory Company: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $74,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $226,000 · Arts & Culture+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $240,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …WHEATON COLLEGE: $195,000 · EducationWHEATON COL…THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationTHE WILLIST…COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $47,400 · EducationCOMMUNITY P…+5 more: $41,200 · Education+5 moreDOWNCITY DESIGN: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GENESIS CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital: $10,000 · HealthMeeting Street: $6,000 · HealthPEACELOVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthREFOCUS INC: $4,000 · HealthRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,821,118Arts & Culture$2,110,000Education$673,600Youth Development$77,500Human Services$70,000Health$65,000Food & Nutrition$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1,275,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $1,155,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $450,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $240,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $195,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $85,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $74,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDOWNCITY DESIGN: $70,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE GENESIS CENTER: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAS 220: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $47,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Urban Arts: $19,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF FALL RIVER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNew Bedford Festival Theatre Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DYNAMIC LEARNING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $10,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetON STAGE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeeting Street: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DOS ACORES DA NOVA INGLATERRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWARWICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTADIUM THEATRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ALZHEIMER'S CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEWPORT STRING PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE SINGERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOPE ACADEMY: $1,200 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 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 COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
  • Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AS 220 ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds New Urban Arts ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF FALL RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds New Bedford Festival Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR DYNAMIC LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC ↗

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 Champlin Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…Amica Companies Found…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Textron Charitable Tr…Otto H York Foundatio…Ira S& Anna Galkin Ch…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Bristol County Saving…The Norman and Rosali…
The Champlin FoundationPA40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Zeiterion Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 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 · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The White Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The White Family 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 72 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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