Jack White continues to act in a godfather capacity. After donating $142,000 to save Detroit's Masonic Temple in June, Billboard reports he's given $200,000 to the National Recording Preservation Foundation. The organization is a non-profit "established to preserve and make accessible the recorded sounds of the United States," i.e. preserve old recordings the way art preservationists preserve old art.

As the NRPF is in its earliest stages, Jack White's contribution will help set the organization into action. Executive Director Gerald Seligman said in a statement that White's donation "is our first and therefore provides the welcome opportunity to go from talk about the needs and priorities of audio preservation to concerted action." The NRPF can now begin giving out grants.

According to the Washington Post, Seligman said that, "Here we have a whole nation of cultural heritage in recorded sound [and] a lot of it is in precarious shape... Some was recorded on very fragile media-- like old cylinders, acetates, reel-to-reel tapes-- and it's turning into shards." White will also serve on the board of the foundation, which was established in partnership with the U.S. Congress. Seligman also said that it's possible the foundation will launch a commercial collection at some point, which seems like perfect Third Man Records fodder.