· Private foundation
WP & HB White Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k126 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Childrens Advocacy | $140,000 |
| WINGS Program | $130,000 |
| CARA Program | $125,000 |
| The Chicago Lighthouse | $120,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach | $115,000 |
| Humble Design | $100,000 |
| Cristo Rey | $100,000 |
| Christ the King Jesuit High School | $80,000 |
| Family Rescue | $75,000 |
| Parenting for NonViolence | $73,000 |
| South Side Center of Hope | $70,000 |
| Leveling the Playing Field Inc | $50,000 |
| Catholic Theological Union | $50,000 |
| Josephinum Academy | $50,000 |
| SparkShop | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
147 repeat relationships: 122 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBig Shoulders Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +67%
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +96%- WPWINGS PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $285k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- LPLOYOLA PRESSone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -6%
- ESEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPSone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CSCHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROF PSYCHOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
How this is measured
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 186 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds PARENTING FOR NON VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Target Hope ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds NEOPOLITAN LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WP & HB White Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WP & HB White Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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