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White Oak Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3.8MArts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$1.1MReligion$502kRecreation & Sports$140kHealth$124kSocial Science$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Riley's Children Foundation$1,020,000
Brown County Community Foundation$530,400
Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology$250,000
Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-The-Woods$200,000
United Way of Central Indiana$200,000
Indianapolis Downtown Inc$100,000
Hope Academy$100,000
Franklin College - Elwood Fitness Center$100,000
United Way of Greenbrier Valley Inc$100,000
Shepherd Community Inc$100,000
Park Tudor School$60,000
Sagamore Institute$50,000
Finish Well Foundation$50,000
Harpeth Hall School$25,000
Oak Hill School$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%United Way of Greenbrier Valley Inc: $100k → 18%Finish Well Foundation: $50k → 5%St Mary's Early Childhood Center: $5k → 16%St Mary's Child Center: $3k → 16%Shepherd Community Inc: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
LA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 33 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$4.2M
$975k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+38%

Still filing today

64%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TC
    The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +96%
  • PT
    PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +41%
  • OH
    OAK HILL SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • BC
    Brown County Community Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $502k
  • GV
    Greenbriar Valley Community Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
5
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
6
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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12
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mind Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Finish Well Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Education Equity LeadershipUnited Way FederationsClassical Music EnsemblesEarly Childhood Education C…Substance Abuse TreatmentHospice Care ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr23%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr23%52%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,941

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
28/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Riley's Children Foundation — $1,020,000 · OtherRiley's Children FoundationBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $555,027 · OtherBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCBrown County Community Foundation — $501,894 · OtherBrown County Community FoundationSaint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology — $250,000 · OtherSaint Meinrad Seminary and School of Th…SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE OF SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS — $200,000 · OtherSISTERS OF PROVIDENCE OF SAINT MARY-OF-…OAK HILL SCHOOL — $120,000 · Other+30 more — $635,000 · Other+30 moreBROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,045,400 · PhilanthropyBROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $955,767 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC+3 more — $41,000 · PhilanthropyThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $1,947,471 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of I…+10 more — $218,941 · Arts & Culture+10 morePARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC — $166,500 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · EducationMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $28,500 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC — $25,000 · Education+7 more — $36,000 · EducationShepherd Community Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFINISH WELL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesBanner Alzheimer's Foundation — $65,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $20,000 · HealthMIND WHAT MATTERS FKA BLUE BAYOU COLLECTIVE — $10,000 · HealthRandom Acts of Flowers — $5,000 · HealthHEROES FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · HealthTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC — $4,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthIndianapolis Downtown Inc — $100,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC — $3,500 · Community Improvement
Other$3,281,921Philanthropy$3,042,167Arts & Culture$2,166,412Education$406,000Human Services$257,500Health$109,500Community Improvement$103,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,045,400 over 4y, 48% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $1,947,471 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $955,767 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC — $166,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL — $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetShepherd Community Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIndianapolis Downtown Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBanner Alzheimer's Foundation — $65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFINISH WELL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,941 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $28,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Penrod Society LTD — $21,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIND WHAT MATTERS FKA BLUE BAYOU COLLECTIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNewfields Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetProgress House — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC — $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Lumina Foundation for…Central Indiana Commu…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…United Way of Central…Christel DeHaan Famil…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Griffith Family Found…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Richard M Fairbanks F…Hamilton County Commu…
Lilly Endowment IncIN43.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization White Oak Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to White Oak Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to White Oak Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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