· Private foundation
The White Foundation
Its FY2023 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
100% of The White Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The White Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $216k. 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, FY2018 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Spring Arbor University | $52,000 |
| Ferndale Free Methodist Church | $40,000 |
| Light and Life Arabic Free Methodist Church | $15,300 |
| Free Methodist Foundation | $15,000 |
| Global Scholars | $15,000 |
| Impact Middle East | $15,000 |
| Southfield Christian School | $10,000 |
| Faith and Learning International | $10,000 |
| Caspian Project | $10,000 |
| SonSet Solutions | $10,000 |
| Africa Inland Mission | $10,000 |
| Fellowship International Mission | $5,000 |
| Somerset Beach Camp | $5,000 |
| Free Methodist Church - USA | $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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% 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 54% of The White Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASpring Arbor University4× · 2018–2021 · $198k · revenue +8%
- IMIMPACT MIDDLE EAST INC4× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue +55%
- SSSONSET SOLUTIONS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- THThe Harborone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ICInternational Child Care Ministriesone grant, 2019 · $7k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
Christian leadership development with formal and non-formal theological education and training.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Spiritual Directors International inspires and connects seekers with spiritual guidance around the world and across traditions. Spiritual Directors International provides multi-faith and global education
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 26 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.
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: GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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