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Whitewoods Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Whitewoods Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$213k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$438kEnvironment$164kCivil Rights$74kCrime & Legal$70kFood & Nutrition$62kEducation$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$485k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Doctors Without Borders$33,000
The Nature Conservancy$29,000
US Fund for UNICEF$27,000
Heifer International$24,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Legal Aid Justice Center$9,000
International Rescue Comm$9,000
Blue Ridge Area Foodbank$9,000
Equal Justice Initiative$9,000
Planned Parenthood Fed$8,000
Unitarian Universalist Service Comm$7,000
Southern Poverty Law Center$5,000
Jefferson School African American Center$4,000
Meals on Wheels Charlottesville Albemarle$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Unitarian Universalist Serv Comm: $7k → 8%International Rescue Comm: $9k → 12%US Fund for UNICEF: $27k → 17%Heifer International: $24k → 17%Equal Justice Initiative: $9k → 18%Southern Poverty Law Center: $5k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $29k → 7%Blue Ridge Area Foodbank: $9k → 8%International Rescue Committee: $7k → 8%Unitarian Universalist Serv Comm: $7k → 8%UNICEF USA: $27k → 17%Heifer International: $24k → 17%Equal Justice Initiative: $9k → 18%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $9k → 8%International Rescue Committee: $5k → 8%Unitarian Universalist Serv Comm: $7k → 8%US Fund for UNICEF: $27k → 17%Heifer International: $22k → 17%Equal Justice Initiative: $7k → 18%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $8k → 8%Congregate Charlottesville: $5k → 8%Unitarian Universalist Service Comm: $6k → 8%UNICEF USA: $27k → 17%Heifer International: $20k → 17%Southern Poverty Law Center: $5k → 18%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $8k → 8%US Fund for UNICEF: $25k → 17%Heifer International: $18k → 17%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $8k → 8%Planned Parenthood Fed America: $8k → 17%Doctors Without Borders: $33k → 17%Doctors Without Borders USA: $33k → 17%American Red Cross: $10k → 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 8%Legal Aid Justice Center: $9k → 8%Legal Aid Justice Center: $9k → 8%Legal Aid Justice Center: $8k → 8%Legal Aid Justice Center: $8k → 8%Legal Aid Justice Center: $6k → 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 8%International Rescue Committee: $9k → 8%International Rescue Committee: $8k → 8%The Nature Conservancy: $44k → 8%The Nature Conservancy: $29k → 8%The Nature Conservancy: $27k → 8%The Nature Conservancy: $25k → 8%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

MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
DC
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$793k · 31 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
2

Total granted

$793k
$11k

Still filing today

65%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $153k · revenue +39%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    5× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +46%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UU
    Unitarian Universalist Service Comm
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • CC
    CONGREGATE CHARLOTTESVILLE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
4
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
5
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
6
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
7
American Civil Liberties Union

The american civil liberties union of west virginia (aclu-wv) is a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization whose mission is to fulfill the promise of the bill of rights for all west virginians and expand the reach of its…

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8
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
9
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
10
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement
11
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
Africulture

Africulture highlights, explores, teaches, and enhances the principles, practices, plants and people of African descent that have contributed to agriculture. Africulture provides outreach and training to targeted communities such as racial…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Creek Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rivanna Trails 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

24 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. 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $154,025 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHeifer International: $108,000 · OtherHeifer InternationalAmerican Red Cross: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $42,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC+23 more: $144,000 · Other+23 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $153,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $133,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFInternational Rescue Committee INC: $29,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $28,000 · InternationalUnitarian Universalist Service Committe…LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Civil RightsKHAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC: $7,000 · EducationALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$498,025International$343,000Crime & Legal$67,000Civil Rights$30,000Education$22,000Animals$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $154,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $153,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $133,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE- ALBEMARLE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDROCK INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVANNA TRAILS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BUCK SQUAD CENTRAL VIRGINIA VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE- ALBEMARLE ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC ↗
  • Who funds IVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDROCK INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVANNA TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Birth Sisters of Charlottesville ↗
  • Who funds THE BUCK SQUAD CENTRAL VIRGINIA VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …The J & E Berkley Fou…The Charles Fund IncThe Oak Hill FundS&P Global Foundation…Oakwood Foundation Ch…Manning Family Founda…The Genan FoundationCaplin FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Charlottesville Track…The Hartfield Fdn Inc…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Manning Family Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charlottesville Track Club Inc · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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