· Private foundation
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 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
- 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 |
| CAN COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 95% of its 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allison K Short Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allison K Short Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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