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White Family Foundation

Tarpon Springs, FL · EIN 02-0794045. Reported 91 grants totalling $1,773,764 to 62 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,773,764granted, 2021-2024
62organizations funded
27%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,546,731assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. White Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
65 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Community Action Stops Abuse (casa)St Petersburg, FL$500,000112022
Clearwater Central Catholic High School IncClearwater, FL$110,000442024
Great Explorations IncSt Petersburg, FL$98,800442024
Academy Prep Center of St Petersburg IncSt Petersburg, FL$60,000332024
Children's Dream FundSt Petersburg, FL$60,000332024
Liz's Legacy Foundation IncWinter Garden, FL$50,000332023
Morning Star Catholic SchoolPinellas Park, FL$50,000222024
Clothes to Kids IncClearwater, FL$48,000332023
Brookwood Florida IncSt Petersburg, FL$40,000222022
Lift AcademySeminole, FL$40,000222023
Pinellas County Sheriffs Pal IncSt Petersburg, FL$40,000222022
The Kind Mouse Productions IncSt Petersburg, FL$40,000222022
The Payton Wright FoundationBradenton, FL$40,000222022
Wheelchairs 4 Kids IncTarpon Springs, FL$40,000222022
Starting Right NowTampa, FL$30,000222024
Shorecrest Preparatory SchoolSt Petersburg, FL$25,000332024
A Door of Hope IncPinellas Park, FL$21,000112023
A Kids Place of Tampa Bay IncBrandon, FL$20,000222022
Academy Prep Center of St PeteSt Petersburg, FL$20,000112023
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Tampa Bay IncLargo, FL$20,000222023
Creative Clay IncSt Petersburg, FL$20,000332024
Gentlemens Quest of TampaWesley Chapel, FL$20,000112024
Liz's LegacyWindermere, FL$20,000112024
Morning Star Catholic School of Pinellas ParkPinellas Park, FL$20,000112022
Parc IncSt Petersburg, FL$20,000112022
The Arc Tampa Bay FoundationClearwater, FL$20,000112021
Wheelchairs for Kids IncTarpon Springs, FL$20,000112023
Adoption Related Services of Pinellas Dba Family Enrichment ServicesPinellas Park, FL$15,000112024
Eckerd Youth Alternatives IncClearwater, FL$15,000112021
Shirley Proctor Puller FoundationSt Petersburg, FL$15,000112024
A Kid's Place of Tampa BayBrandon, FL$10,464112024
Achieve Plant CityPlant City, FL$10,000112022
Adventure for AllSarasota, FL$10,000112024
Bill Edwards Foundation for the ArtsSt Petersburg, FL$10,000112023
Catholic Charities Diocese of St PetersburgSeminole, FL$10,000112024
Catholic ExtensionChicago, IL$10,000112023
Clearwater Free ClinicClearwater, FL$10,000112022
Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services - Heart GalleryClearwater, FL$10,000112023
Gulf Coast Jfcs-Heart GalleryClearwater, FL$10,000112022
Learn Tampa Bay Dba Achieve Plant CityPlant City, FL$10,000112024
Lighthouse of PinellasLargo, FL$10,000112022
Mission City ChurchLargo, FL$10,000112024
Ready for LifeLargo, FL$10,000112024
Savvy Giving By DesignTampa, FL$10,000112023
Shorecrest PrepSt Petersburg, FL$10,000112023
Daystar Life CenterSt Petersburg, FL$9,000112021
Speak Up Let's Talk About Mental HealthTarpon Springs, FL$8,000112024
Trinity Preparatory SchoolWinter Park, FL$8,000222023
Diocese of Venice Hurricane Ian Relief FundVenice, FL$6,000112022
First Tee of St PetersburgSt Petersburg, FL$6,000112022
Home House of Mercy & EncouragementDunedin, FL$5,000112023
Hope Hospice and Community Services IncFort Myers, FL$5,000112023
Pinellas County Education FoundationLargo, FL$5,000112024
Pinellas County Schools-Boca Ciega WrestlingClearwater, FL$5,000112023
The Junior League of St Petersburg FloridaSt Petersburg, FL$5,000112021
Mosi-Museum of Science & IndustryTampa, FL$4,500112023
Serving HopeHuntsville, AL$4,000112024
First Tee St PetersburgSt Petersburg, FL$3,000112021
St Anne Parish Food PantryRuskin, FL$3,000112022
St Jerome's Catholic ChurchLargo, FL$3,000112021
The Depaul SchoolClearwater, FL$3,000112021
Trinity Prep SchoolWinter Park, FL$3,000112021

19 of 62 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 27%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
19 grants
Education
12 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$303,000$12,500
202226$846,000$16,500
202322$280,500$10,000
202421$344,264$10,464

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$1.8M
Illinois
$10K
Alabama
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund29 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc27 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc19 shared recipientsPinellas Community Foundation18 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust16 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from White Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2491, Tarpon Springs, FL, 34688. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 02-0794045 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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