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The White Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The White Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Toledo Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The White Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $113k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k21 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $9,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LIMA | $7,500 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,440 |
| UNION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WILMINGTON COLLEGE | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $4,500 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,370 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $4,250 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The White Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 38%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $29k · revenue +63%
- WJWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +21%
Cornell University3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LLOURDESone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds LOURDES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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