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Dr Shafie Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Dr Shafie Charitable 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.

$533k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Science & Tech$348kHuman Services$325kFood & Nutrition$220kInternational$180kAnimals$110kHousing & Shelter$30kReligion$25kEducation$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $323k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY$137,500
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE$85,000
FEEDING EMPTY LITTLE TUMMIES INC$50,000
EASTER SEALS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$50,000
RESURRECTION HOUSE INC$30,000
CHILDREN FIRST INC$30,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC$30,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$25,000
PICKLES GROUP INC$25,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMAL$25,000
COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $25k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $25k → 10%RESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $30k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 7 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+12%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $348k · revenue +89%
  • Children First Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +3%
  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JF
    Jewish Family & Childrens Service
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • SG
    SOUTHERN GUIDE DOGS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HS
    Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
2
Hollys Hope of North Port
Education
3
Manatee Children's Services Inc

Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.

Crime & Legal
4
Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.

Animals
5
Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc

The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.

Food & Nutrition
6
Suncoast Basset Rescue Inc

Suncoast Basset Rescue (SBR) rescues Basset Hounds from stray, abusive, abandoned and sheltered situations. SBR gives Basset Hounds a second chance to live as someones best animal friend.

Animals
7
Florida Little Dog Rescue Group Inc

To rescue rehabilitate and rehome homeless and abandoned pets.

Animals
8
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
9
Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition
10
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
11
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc

Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.

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12
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $347,500 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE: $175,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICEJewish Family & Childrens Service: $30,000 · OtherSOUTHERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $25,000 · OtherLOVING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $20,000 · OtherALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $170,000 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS FOOD BAN…Feeding Empty Little Tummies Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Empty Littl…Children First Inc: $180,000 · EducationChildren First IncMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOL…Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $100,000 · HealthSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesRESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF MANATEE COUNTY ANIMAL: $25,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsPickles Group Inc: $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$622,500Food & Nutrition$220,000Education$205,000Health$100,000Human Services$80,000Animals$35,000Youth Development$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $347,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren First Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLOVING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Tillie Jennie & H…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Shafie Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Shafie Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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