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Allison K Short Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBION COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE JEFFERSON PROJECT | $5,000 |
| STUDIO 23 | $5,000 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CAN COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- S2STUDIO 236× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +20%
- CACHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +39%
- BABAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIESone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The south bay artist collective's mission as a 501(c)3 non-profit is to support and grow the local visual arts community through creating a destination for art and creativity, while teaching and inspiring youth. our purpose is to support…
Outpatient rehabilitation
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
BAYCAT addresses racial, gender and economic inequity by creating powerful, authentic media while diversifying the creative industry. Through the education and employment of low-income youth, young people of color, and young women in the…
To faciliatate and collaborate on programs that support a thriving community and economic growth in bay county and the great lakes bay region.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build and revitalize homes, communities, and hope.
To provide specialized residential services to mentally ill and disabled individuals in order to assist each person to meet personal goals by providing the highest quality services that are unique to each person's wishes, needs, and…
Our program service accomplishments include successes within the policy and research framework for bay area infrastructure including transportation, housing and land use, homelessness, workforce of the future, gender equity and diversity,…
Dedicated to facilitating economic development strategies that promote and secure opportunities for business retention, growth, and the attraction of new industries that create quality jobs for community residents.
We bring people together to build community as an inclusive, independent, community-supported nonprofit organization.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STUDIO 23 ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Kantzler Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allison K Short Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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