How much does WP & HB White Foundation give?

WP & HB White Foundation reported 141 grants totaling $4,313,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 133 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does WP & HB White Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Human Services (14%).

Who are WP & HB White Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Big Shoulders Fund ($395k), Chicago Children's Advocacy Center ($330k), Wings Program Inc ($285k).

Does WP & HB White Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does WP & HB White Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as WP & HB White Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Helen V Brach Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.

Where is WP & HB White Foundation based?

WP & HB White Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

WP & HB White Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 141
Grants FY2025: 133
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $140,000
Organizations funded a year: 106 to 133; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $35M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations WP & HB White Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthReligionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	141	$4.3M	13%
FY2024	133	$3.3M	7%
FY2023	128	$2.8M	13%
FY2022	125	$3.4M	14%
FY2021	116	$2.3M	16%
FY2020	106	$2.1M	n/a

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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 2025.

Education$4.8MHousing & Shelter$3.5MHuman Services$2.5MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$1.5MReligion$1.0MEmployment$888kCrime & Legal$760kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Big Shoulders Fund	$395,000	6	0%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center	$330,000	6	1%
Wings Program Inc	$285,000	6	1%
Josephinum Academy	$270,000	6	n/a
Restoring the Path	$260,000	6	12%
The Cara Program	$235,000	6	1%
St Leonard's Ministries	$220,000	6	2%
Parenting for Non Violence	$218,000	6	33%
A Safe Haven Foundation	$210,000	5	0%
Communities in Schools of Chicago	$210,000	6	1%

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All grantees of WP & HB White Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Big Shoulders Fund	$395,000	6	0%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center	$330,000	6	1%
Wings Program Inc	$285,000	6	1%
Josephinum Academy	$270,000	6	n/a
Restoring the Path	$260,000	6	12%
The Cara Program	$235,000	6	1%
St Leonard's Ministries	$220,000	6	2%
Parenting for Non Violence	$218,000	6	33%
A Safe Haven Foundation	$210,000	5	0%
Communities in Schools of Chicago	$210,000	6	1%
Target Hope	$205,000	6	16%
Southside Center of Hope	$200,000	5	16%
Our Lady of Tepeyac High School	$200,000	6	n/a
Franciscan Outreach	$200,000	6	1%
Safe Families for Children Alliance	$195,000	6	1%
Jane Addams Resource Corporation	$195,000	6	1%
Holy Trinity High School	$190,000	6	n/a
Family Rescue Inc	$180,000	6	1%
Rebuilding Together North Suburban Chicago	$180,000	6	13%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation	$177,000	6	0%
By The Hand Club For Kids	$175,000	6	0%
Sisterhouse	$175,000	6	9%
The Resurrection Project	$175,000	6	0%
Deborah's Place	$172,500	6	1%
Leo High School	$170,000	6	n/a
Build Inc	$170,000	6	0%
Neopolitan Lighthouse	$170,000	6	5%
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	$170,000	6	0%
The Night Ministry	$165,000	6	0%
Highsight	$165,000	6	3%
The Boulevard of Chicago Inc	$161,500	6	1%
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc	$160,000	6	0%
Chicago Youth Programs Inc	$160,000	6	2%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County	$160,000	6	3%
Community Health NFP	$155,000	6	0%
St Francis de Sales High School	$155,000	6	n/a
Margarets Village	$150,000	6	2%
Greater West Town Community Development Project	$140,000	6	1%
Facing Forward to End Homelessness	$140,000	6	1%
Sarah's Circle	$140,000	6	0%
Lawrence Hall	$140,000	6	0%
The Chicago Debate Commission	$140,000	6	2%
De Lasalle Institute	$135,000	6	n/a
Mount Carmel High School	$135,000	6	n/a
Saint Xavier University	$135,000	6	0%
Lincoln Park Community Services	$130,000	5	1%
Taller de Jose	$130,000	6	5%
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$130,000	6	1%
Juvenile Protective Association	$129,000	6	1%
Childrens Oncology Services Inc	$125,000	6	1%
Project Vision Inc	$122,000	6	2%
Youth Job Center Inc	$120,000	6	1%
Voice of the People in Uptown Inc	$120,000	6	35%
La Casa Norte	$119,000	6	0%
St Patrick High School	$115,000	6	n/a
Pacific Garden Mission	$115,000	6	n/a
Child's Voice School	$115,000	6	1%
St Rita of Cascia High School Corporation	$115,000	5	n/a
Second Sense	$110,000	6	2%
Chicago Furniture Bank	$110,000	4	0%
Reading in Motion	$110,000	5	2%
New Moms Inc	$110,000	6	0%
Parenteach Institute	$110,000	2	8%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy	$105,000	3	n/a
Tutoring Chicago	$105,000	6	2%
Mobile Care Foundation	$102,000	6	1%
Equality Dream Team	$100,000	3	61%
Mercy Housing Lakefront	$100,000	6	0%
Covenant House Illinois Inc	$100,000	5	0%
Children's Research Triangle	$100,000	4	1%
Holy Spirit Life Learning Center	$99,000	4	n/a
Leslie Shankman School Corporation	$95,000	4	0%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals	$95,000	5	0%
Lumen Christi Institute	$95,000	5	1%
The Lambs Farm Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic	$90,000	6	2%
Care for Friends	$89,000	5	6%
Kids Above All Illinois	$87,500	6	0%
Regina Dominican High School	$85,000	6	n/a
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation	$85,000	6	0%
Southside Pregnancy Center Inc	$85,000	4	4%
Association House of Chicago	$84,000	6	0%
Common Pantry	$80,000	4	1%
African American Christian Foundation	$80,000	4	2%
Cradles to Crayons Inc	$80,000	4	0%
Fill a Heart 4 Kids	$80,000	3	6%
Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S	$75,000	6	1%
McDermott Center	$75,000	3	0%
Newroot Learning Institute F/K/A Umoja Student Development Corp	$75,000	3	1%
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago	$75,000	6	0%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$70,000	6	1%
Christians Against Poverty America	$70,000	4	7%
Loyola Press	$70,000	1	0%
Matthew House Inc	$70,000	5	2%
Gap Community Center	$65,000	3	5%
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers	$60,000	6	0%
The Cradle Foundation	$60,000	6	0%
Inside Out Network Inc	$60,000	3	9%
Collective Chicago	$55,000	4	7%
Madonna Mission	$53,000	4	2%
Tuesdays Child	$50,000	5	3%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Leveling the Playing Field Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Howard Area Community Center	$50,000	5	0%
Youth Outreach Services Inc	$45,000	5	0%
Ignatian Spirituality Project	$45,000	3	n/a
The Lyte Collective	$35,000	2	3%
Southwest Chicago Homeless Services	$35,000	2	9%
Male Mogul Initiative Inc Nfp	$35,000	2	10%
I Grow Chicago NFP	$32,500	2	3%
Hope Ignites Chicago	$30,000	3	0%
Digs With Dignity Corporation	$30,000	2	4%
St James Parish	$30,000	3	n/a
Revolution Workshop	$25,000	1	0%
Caring Network Nfp	$25,000	1	1%
Humanity Rising Inc	$25,000	1	13%
Inspiration Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
Cornerstone Community Outreach	$25,000	1	1%
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home	$25,000	1	0%
St Joseph High School	$25,000	1	n/a
Nourishing Hope	$25,000	2	0%
Operation Warm Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The Christian Brothers of the Midwest Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Childrens Legal Center	$20,000	1	4%
Intentional Sports	$20,000	1	n/a
Aspire of Illinois	$20,000	1	0%
Catholic Bishop of Chicago	$20,000	1	n/a
City Year Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Domestic Violence Outreach	$20,000	1	n/a
Urban Cpe Consortium Inc	$20,000	2	14%
Will's Place	$20,000	1	4%
Center for Advancing Domestic Peace	$20,000	1	2%
Executive Service Corps of Chicago	$20,000	1	n/a
Girls Inc of Chicago	$20,000	1	1%
The Bloc	$20,000	1	2%
Maryville Academy	$15,000	2	0%
Ryan Banks Academy	$15,000	1	3%
Chicago Hope Academy	$15,000	1	0%
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$13,500	3	0%
St Joseph Services Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Metropolitan Family Services	$10,000	1	0%
The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares	$10,000	1	0%
Circesteem Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Forefront	$4,150	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.

WP & HB White Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 122.

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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.

Helen V Brach FoundationIL87.9× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen V Brach Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · All Chicago Making Homelessness History

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.

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About WP & HB White Foundation

How much does WP & HB White Foundation give?: WP & HB White Foundation reported 141 grants totaling $4,313,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 133 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does WP & HB White Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Human Services (14%).
Who are WP & HB White Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Big Shoulders Fund ($395k), Chicago Children's Advocacy Center ($330k), Wings Program Inc ($285k).
Does WP & HB White Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does WP & HB White Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as WP & HB White Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Helen V Brach Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
Where is WP & HB White Foundation based?: WP & HB White Foundation is based in IL.