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Whitecross 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DUNN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY | $9,700 |
| DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY | $9,700 |
| HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCIRCLE 1000 | $3,000 |
| JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC | $2,500 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICA | $2,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SUPPORTABILITY | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +62%
- DADECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +50%
- OCORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL6× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +696%
Funded once
- FSFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +8%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +18%
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
70 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. 70 of the 96 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUNN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Planes of Fame Air Museum ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTABILITY ↗
- Who funds DENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Prentice School ↗
- Who funds Harbor Day School ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLUB IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Jeanette Bertea Hennings Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Oneoc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Whitecross Foundation 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.
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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