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White House Farm Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.1MEnvironment$634kEducation$59kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$2kReligion$692Other$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$140,000
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$50,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA CONSERVATION TRUST$10,000
BULL RUN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY$5,200
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE$2,600
DUCKS UNLIMITED$2,500
PRINCE WILLIAM PARKS FOUNDATION$2,500
PRINCE WILLIAM WILDFLOWER SOCIETY$2,250
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST$767
GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION$500
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY$500
Individual grant recipient$500
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY SCHOOLS$465
HUMAN BEAVER COEXISTENCE FUND$250
ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EARTH SANGHA: $250 → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $250 → 6%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 18 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$2.8M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentScience & TechEmploymentAnimalsOther
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

  • NV
    Northern Virginia Conservation Trust
    6× · 2019–2025 · $82k · revenue +105%
  • BR
    BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +54%
  • TC
    THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -2%
  • NV
    NO VA COMMUNITY COLLEGE - SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LEILANI CABRERA & ANH TUE BUI
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • WG
    Women Giving Back Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +75%
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
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
2
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy inspires, motivates, and engages people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County, Virginia.We accomplish our mission through our advocacy, education, citizen science, and habitat…

Animals
3
The Nature Institute
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4
Nature Forward

Nature Forward inspires residents of the DC area to appreciate, understand, and protect their natural environment through outdoor experiences, education and advocacy, and creates a larger and more diverse community of people who treasure…

Environment
5
James River Association

The mission of the james river association is to be guardian of the james river. we provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.

Environment
6
Northern Virginia Bird Alliance Inc

To engage all Northern Virginia communities in enjoying, conserving and restoring nature for the benefit of birds, other wildlife, and people. This is advanced through educational programs, citizen science, conservation initiatives and…

Environment
7
Valley Conservation Council

To protect the natural and cultural resources of the greater shenandoah valley region through land conservation, education, and experiences to preserve the life-enriching benefits our land and water provide.

Environment
8
Environment Now
—
9
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
10
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
11
Virginias United Land Trusts

Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…

Environment
12
Virginia Society of Ornithology

to encourage the systematic study of birds in Virginia, to stimulate interest in birds, and to assist the conservation of wildlife and other natural resources

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clifton Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smith Family Charitable 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

23 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. 23 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,080,800 · PhilanthropySMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+1 more: $33,043 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $355,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL S…Potomac Riverkeeper Network: $151,135 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverkeeper Netw…Northern Virginia Conservation Trust: $81,500 · EnvironmentNorthern Virginia Conser…BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $26,350 · Environment+5 more: $5,767 · EnvironmentLAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $29,270 · OtherVA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY - SCHOLARSHIP FOR AHMED IBRAHIM: $20,000 · OtherTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $7,900 · OtherNO VA COMMUNITY COLLEGE - SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LEILANI CABRERA & ANH TUE BUI: $5,000 · Other+20 more: $18,211 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWomen Giving Back Inc: $5,000 · EmploymentDEVOTION TO CHILDREN INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentAERO ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,250 · Animals
Philanthropy$2,113,843Environment$619,752Other$80,381Arts & Culture$10,000Employment$5,000Youth Development$2,500Animals$1,250

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 budgetSMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,080,800 over 2y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $355,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $151,135 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust: $81,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $33,043 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $26,350 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $7,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEVOTION TO CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $1,459 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAERO ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,250 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetVIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCORACLE: $692 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Sangha: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC: $250 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.

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.

Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Chesapeake Bay TrustLand Family Foundatio…Virginia Environmenta…Dun FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Land Family Foundation Trust · Virginia Environmental Endowment · Dun Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 House Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White House Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of 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)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to White House Farm Foundation?

Find your warmest path to White House Farm Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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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