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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.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$429kPhilanthropy$235kHealth$107kArts & Culture$91kCrime & Legal$55kYouth Development$34kInternational$22kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC$2,500
PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION$2,500
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$2,500
SUPPORTABILITY$1,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 16%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $13k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $850 → 10%HOMEFRONT AMERICA INC: $1k → 10%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

MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
NM
DC
AL
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$732k · 33 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
53

Total granted

$732k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+44%

Still filing today

76%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +62%
  • DA
    DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +50%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +696%

Funded once

  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +8%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +18%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +84%
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

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…

Education
3
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
4
Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
11
Occidental College

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,…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 96 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
55/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $309,584 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $21,000 · EducationDUNN SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+14 more: $62,900 · Education+14 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $225,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUND…+3 more: $13,250 · Philanthropy+3 moreBEYOND BLINDNESS: $35,759 · OtherBEYOND BLINDNESSCDM COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherCDM COMMUNITY CONGREGATI…HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCIRCLE 1000: $17,800 · OtherHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $17,700 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS…CWEE: $10,000 · OtherSHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $20,000 · OtherJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDI…TEAM RUBICON INC: $13,400 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INC+44 more: $81,568 · Other+44 moreDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $55,870 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $13,400 · Human Services+4 more: $4,350 · Human ServicesORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL: $52,250 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Crime & LegalCHOC FOUNDATION: $15,500 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $13,625 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $3,800 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFLYING LEATHERNECK HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSTUDIOS ON THE PARK INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & Culture
Education$432,984Philanthropy$238,250Other$232,727Human Services$73,620Crime & Legal$54,750Health$33,750Arts & Culture$26,725

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $309,584 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $55,870 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL: $52,250 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $35,759 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $17,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $13,625 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $13,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $13,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTABILITY: $11,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE: $7,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Prentice School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Day School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CLUB IMPACT FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $3,693 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbine Community Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING LEATHERNECK HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY POLICE CANINE ASSOC: $2,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

Orange County Communi…Argyros Family Founda…Croul Family Foundati…California Community …The Jeanette Bertea H…Edwards Lifesciences …The William Gillespie…The Crean FoundationLon V Smith FoundationO L Halsell FoundationOneocGs Donor Advised Phil…
Orange County Community FoundationCA28.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Whitecross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitecross 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Whitecross Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Whitecross 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 96 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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