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White Family Foundation Inc

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.

$445k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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$918kReligion$828kPhilanthropy$792kEducation$477kHuman Services$86kEnvironment$64kHealth$53kRecreation & Sports$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALTON STATE FOUNDATION$124,780
REINHARDT UNIVERSITY$55,000
CHRIST CHURCH$45,000
CREATIVE ARTS GUILD$28,000
KEEP DALTON WHITFIELD BEAUTIFUL$25,000
WHITFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$18,225
WHITFIELD - MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$16,000
UNITED WAY$15,000
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$11,500
CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
YOUNG SINGERS OF FLINT HALL$10,000
CHEROKEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
DALTON'S GREATER WORKS$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$8,000
NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $8k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 15%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $800 → 15%WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $4k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $3k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 13%SECRET SANTA: $2k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $2k → 13%WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $1k → 13%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 39 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
30

Total granted

$2.9M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

38%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $381k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    Creative Arts Guild Incorporated
    8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +58%
  • WE
    WHITFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • NG
    NORTH GEORGIA SOCCER ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +262%
  • WC
    WHITFIELD COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • DS
    DALTON STATE ATHLETIC CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Northwest Ga Regional Library Inc

Library

Education
2
Presbyterian Homes of Georgia Inc

Presbyterian homes of georgia is a christian ministry providing exceptional services to enhance the quality of life for senior adults.

Human Services
3
Georgia Charter Schools Inc

Operation of charter school and related support services.

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4
Davie County Economic Development Commission Inc

Coordinate economic development for davie county, nc

Community Improvement
5
David George World Ministries Inc

Propagate the gospel of jesus christ through preaching at established churches; establishing new churchs, christian schools, and orphanages; supporting foreign missionary out-reach; provide training for pastors and lay-persons

Religion
6
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
7
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…

Philanthropy
8
North Georgia Camp and Retreat Ministries Inc

Provide camp and retreat ministries which shape and expand the christian commitment of persons of all ages empowering them to live the truth of the gospel.

Religion
9
Dunwoody Preservation Trust Inc

To preserve the history and heritage of dunwoody, ga, through educational programs, publications, collections, and research

Arts & Culture
10
Dahlonega-Lumpkin Co Chamber of Commerce Inc

Advance the commercial, industrial, civic, and general welfare of the greater lumpkin co. area.

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11
West Georgia Christian Retreat Ctr

Provide a place of communion and growth in personal relationship with jesus christ.

Religion
12
North Georgia Walk to Emmaus Inc

The objective of the North Georgia Walk to Emmaus Community is to inspire, challenge, and equip church members for Christin action and leadership in their homes, churches, places of work and communities through the Walk to Emmaus…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center; the most unlike its peers is Keep Dalton Whitfield Clean & Beautiful Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cherokee County Historical Society: $618,000 · OtherCherokee County Historical SocietyCHRISTIAN HERITAGE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $530,700 · OtherCHRISTIAN HERITAGE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONDALTON STATE FOUNDATION: $293,880 · OtherDALTON STATE FOUNDATIONCHRISTCHURCH PRESBYTERIAN: $219,000 · OtherCHRISTCHURCH PRESBYTERIANUNITED WAY: $121,400 · OtherUNITED WAY+66 more: $480,537 · Other+66 moreREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $381,394 · EducationREINHARDT UNI…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $345,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…Creative Arts Guild Incorporated: $261,563 · Arts & CultureNorthwest Georgia Family Crisis Center: $30,850 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $12,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesVenezuela NOW Inc: $32,000 · ReligionKEEP DALTON WHITFIELD CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL INC: $25,000 · Environment
Other$2,263,517Education$391,394Philanthropy$345,000Arts & Culture$261,563Human Services$61,350Religion$32,000Environment$25,000

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 budgetCherokee County Historical Society: $618,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $381,394 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $345,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Guild Incorporated: $261,563 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetWHITFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $53,230 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetVenezuela NOW Inc: $32,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwest Georgia Family Crisis Center: $30,850 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP DALTON WHITFIELD CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDALTONS GREATER WORKS: $24,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHWEST GEORGIA HEALTHCARE PARTNERSHIP: $23,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $16,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA SOCCER ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDEO CLINIC INC: $11,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCHEROKEE CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST GEORGIA GIRLS HOME INC: $5,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDalton Little Theatre: $3,350 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUN FOR GOD INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPraters Mill Foundation Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $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 Cherokee County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Creative Arts Guild Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds WHITFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Venezuela NOW Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center ↗
  • Who funds KEEP DALTON WHITFIELD CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds DALTONS GREATER WORKS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST GEORGIA HEALTHCARE PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds WHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH GEORGIA SOCCER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEO CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL 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 Community Foundat…The Anna Sue and Bob …Georgia Power Foundat…Mohawk Carpet Foundat…Helen and Harry Saul …Kenneth E Boring Char…The Jack and Aggie Ba…The Anita and Julian …Brown Whitworth Reyno…The Nabors to Neighbo…United Way of Northwe…North Georgia Electri…
The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia IncGA40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc · Brown Whitworth Reynolds Foundation · The Nabors to Neighbors Inc · United Way of Northwest Georgiainc · North Georgia Electric Membership 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 White Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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