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White 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$272kArts & Culture$69kHealth$20kEnvironment$11kMembership Benefit$9kReligion$4kPhilanthropy$1kInternational$700Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$12,500
AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST$10,000
ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY$4,311
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$1,000
ABC TO CEO$1,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$750
THE 101 RANCH COLLECTORS ASSOC$500
CAVE CREEK MUSEUM$20
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Health Network Foundation: $3k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $2k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
OH
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
OK
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 16 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$314k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+69%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520 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
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +85%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +26%
  • AM
    AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • CC
    Crow Canyon Archaeology Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $17k
  • CC
    COWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -8%
  • EC
    ETZANOA CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
The Michael Murphey Western Institute in
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
3
Phoenix Art Museum

Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…

Arts & Culture
4
The Irvine Museum
—
5
The Rockwell Museum
—
6
Degrazia Foundation Inc
Unclassified
7
Chase Ranch Foundation
Human Services
8
Tucson Presidio Trust for Historic Preservation

The mission of the presidio san agustin del tucson trust is to promote, preserve and interpret the origins and history of tucson

—
9
Hathaway Ranch Museum Co Harvey & Parmelee Llp
—
10
Pioneers Museum Foundation of Colorado Springs

To support the operations of the colorado springs pioneers museum

—
11
Cr Smith Museum Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

To respect and support the traditions and creative expressions of the native american peoples, and to present exhibitions and other public programs relating to them; to collect and document contemporary expressions of the navajo people…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autry Museum of the American West; the most unlike its peers is Rpm Foundation. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $210,566 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $19,141 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYCOWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCOWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONMONTESSORI PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $10,390 · Education+2 more: $7,750 · EducationCrow Canyon Archaeology Foundation: $17,168 · OtherCrow Canyon Archaeology Fou…TOM MIX MUSEUM INC: $13,475 · OtherTOM MIX MUSEUM INCAUDRAIN AUTO MUSEUM: $11,375 · OtherAUDRAIN AUTO MUSEUMETZANOA CONSERVANCY INC: $10,500 · OtherETZANOA CONSERVANCY INCPeterson Auto Foundation: $9,400 · OtherPeterson Auto FoundationGoing to the Sun Rally GTTSR: $7,600 · OtherGoing to the Sun Rally GTTS…Crowley College: $5,150 · OtherCrowley CollegeCHEROKEE STRIP MUSEUM: $5,000 · OtherFirst United Methodist Church: $3,250 · Other+14 more: $11,500 · Other+14 moreAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,800 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $370 · Arts & CulturePETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSEUM OF WESTERN FILM HISTORY: $500 · PhilanthropyPrescott Western Heritage Foundation Inc: $500 · PhilanthropyRPM FOUNDATION: $250 · PhilanthropyHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $700 · InternationalMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 · Health
Education$262,847Other$94,418Arts & Culture$19,670Philanthropy$7,250Human Services$6,000International$700Health$300

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 budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $210,566 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $19,141 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTESSORI PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $10,390 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetPETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABC TO CEO LTD: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Academy: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF WESTERN FILM HISTORY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPrescott Western Heritage Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRPM FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPRINTS OF HONOR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCave Creek Museum: $20 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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI PARENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REVS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ABC TO CEO LTD ↗
  • Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Foothills Academy ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF WESTERN FILM HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Prescott Western Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RPM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IMPRINTS OF HONOR ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Revs Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 42 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home