Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,439,414 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
80% of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $289k → $2.7M.
26 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 82% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 151 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 200 organizations that share your funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Research Institute for Hawaiiusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 119 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 157 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Ernst & Young Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
- The Pew Charitable Trustsshared fundersDC · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Fjcshared fundersNY · backs 132 organizations that share your funders
- Pledgeling Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 130 organizations that share your funders
- America's Charitiesshared fundersVA · backs 139 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $475k on record — $475k federal, $761 state.
- Department of State$255k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$219k
- VT$621
- NJ$140
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- White House Endowment & Acquisition Trt · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,439,414 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $30,439,414 in grants to WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 151funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing