· Private foundation
Betty R Sheffer Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k48 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $92,158 |
| WESTPORT LIBRARY | $23,540 |
| THE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL AT YALE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LACHAT | $11,200 |
| DAP HEALTH (FORMERLY DESERT AIDS PROJECT) | $11,000 |
| THE PISTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE REMARKABLE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL- NY | $8,025 |
| ALDRICH MUSEUM | $5,850 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DEZART PERFORMS | $4,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DHDAP Health Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $184k · revenue +543%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $172k · revenue +14%
- PSPalm Springs Cultural Center4× · 2018–2021 · $59k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AWASPEN WALDORF FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +126%
- FOFRIENDS OF WESTPORT PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 155 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 ASPEN WALDORF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LACHAT INC ↗
- Who funds The Oakwood School Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PISTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Dezart Performs ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUBIN PICTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NIGHT NIGHT ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Western Wind Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Charity Works · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Gendell Family Foundation Inc · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Regional Access Project Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Betty R Sheffer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty R Sheffer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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