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Vernon R and Alice O White Charitable Foundation #1255001776 at a glance

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Vernon R and Alice O White Charitable Foundation #1255001776

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$160kHousing & Shelter$37kArts & Culture$30kPublic Benefit$19kFood & Nutrition$10kAnimals$8kPhilanthropy$7kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$874k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES$7,500
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY$7,000
MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION$7,000
DURANGO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD: $3k → 14%CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $2k → 11%YMCA - MOORER BRANCH: $3k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD: $3k → 14%CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $2k → 11%MOBILE BAY KEEPER: $3k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD: $3k → 14%CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $2k → 11%FEEDING THE GULF COAST: $10k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES: $8k → 6%FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD: $3k → 14%CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $1k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $10k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES: $7k → 6%FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD: $3k → 14%CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $1k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $10k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $10k → 19%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $8k → 19%MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $7k → 19%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $7k → 19%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $6k → 19%VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $8k → 19%VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $7k → 19%VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $4k → 19%VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $1k → 19%PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK: $3k → 19%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 7 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$252k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +78%
  • BH
    BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +47%
  • VR
    VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • FT
    Feeding the Gulf Coast
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • YM
    YMCA - MOORER BRANCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • MB
    Mobile Baykeeper Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +99%
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
Healthy Gulf

Healthy Gulfs purpose is to collaborate with and serve communities who love the Gulf of Mexico by providing the research, communications, and coalition-building tools needed to reverse the long pattern of over exploitation of the Gulfs…

Environment
2
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc

Promote stewardship of the marine environment.

Environment
3
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc

To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…

Environment
4
Sea to Shore Alliance

Research, education and conservation work to improve the health & productivity of coastal envirmonments for endangered species & human livlihoods that depend on them.

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5
Reef Relief Inc

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem

Environment
6
Friends of No 9 Inc

Friends of Number 9 seeks to acquire, restore, conserve and display the last piece of historic railway stock for the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway.

Arts & Culture
7
Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum

To preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of biloxi and the mississippi gulf coast.

Arts & Culture
8
South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals
9
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen disaster response in america by rescuing and recruiting dogs and partnering them with firefighters and other first responders to find people buried alive in the wreckage of disasters.

Health
10
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
11
Southeastern Railway Museum Inc

Railway Museum operated to preserve historical artifacts and provide information on the history of railways.

Arts & Culture
12
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Building Homes for Heroes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Durango Railroad Historical Society. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $110,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $50,138 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSYYMCA - MOORER BRANCH: $3,000 · OtherMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FO…Mobile Baykeeper Inc: $3,000 · OtherBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $37,200 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING HOMES …Durango Railroad Historical Society: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDurango Rail…FRIENDS OF THE CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF T…PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK INC: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePLAYHOUSE IN…VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $19,223 · Public BenefitFeeding the Gulf Coast: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION: $8,000 · Animals
Health$110,000Other$63,138Housing & Shelter$37,200Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$19,223Food & Nutrition$10,000Animals$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $37,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $19,223 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDurango Railroad Historical Society: $15,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vernon R and Alice O White Charitable Foundation #1255001776 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vernon R and Alice O White Charitable Foundation #1255001776. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 12 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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