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Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$7.4MArts & Culture$1.3MEducation$930kYouth Development$327kHuman Services$200kHealth$140kCivil Rights$90kEmployment$45kOther$0
02FY2022 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 46 grants below total $1,450,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,710,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $260,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k39 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $360k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Friends of the Children$55,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles$55,000
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens$50,000
School on Wheels$50,000
Southern California College Access Network c/o Community Partners$50,000
Los Angeles Room & Board (LA Room & Board)$50,000
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)$50,000
College Match c/o Community Partners$40,000
Partners in Care Foundation$35,000
Everybody Dance LA! (formerly The Gabriella Foundation)$35,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)$35,000
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$35,000
Blind Children's Center$35,000
Villa Esperanza Services$35,000
Deaf West Theatre Company Inc.$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNCOMMON GOOD: $25k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $20k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $50k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $40k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
13

Total granted

$2.8M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • SO
    SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +2%
  • UF
    UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    3× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +15%
  • GP
    GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NV
    NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +68%
  • YEAR UP INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • READY TO SUCCEEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +667%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
3
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
4
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…

Arts & Culture
5
Renaissance Arts Academy

Tk-12 charter public school focused on educational equity and success for all students with a priority on tradionally underserved populations.

Education
6
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
Larchmont Schools

The mission of larchmont charter school is to provide a socio-economically, culturally and racially diverse community of students with an exceptional public education. we foster creativity and academic excellence; our students learn with…

Education
9
The Archer School for Girls Inc

The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…

Education
10
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
11
Maranatha High School

Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArt Museums & GalleriesInternational Child & Commu…Youth Mentoring & Developme…Early Childhood Care & Pres…Independent Charter SchoolsPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr12%23%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,771

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFT — $518,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFTTHE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS — $175,000 · OtherTHE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONSIndividual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEAF WEST THEATRE — $115,000 · OtherDEAF WEST THEATREPS ARTS — $90,000 · Other+33 more — $767,203 · Other+33 moreSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $210,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCThe Blind Childrens Center Inc — $85,000 · EducationThe Blind Childrens Cen…Harmony Project — $85,000 · EducationHarmony ProjectCOLLEGE MATCH — $80,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MATCHEVERYBODY DANCE LA — $60,000 · EducationEVERYBODY DANCE LATHRIVE SCHOLARS — $55,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS F…COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN — $35,000 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $35,000 · Education+5 more — $105,000 · Education+5 moreGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE I…WILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM — $80,000 · Arts & CultureWILL GEERS THEATRI…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHA…MUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON…INNER-CITY ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GRO…MuseIque — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMuseIqueDEAF WEST THEATRE COMPANY INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureDEAF WEST THEATRE …HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $30,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $145,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND — $65,000 · Human ServicesUNCOMMON GOOD — $55,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $30,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION — $55,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $90,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,780,203Education$795,000Arts & Culture$615,000Human Services$295,000Youth Development$160,000Health$105,000Civil Rights$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $210,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $145,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPS ARTS — $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHarmony Project — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM — $80,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES — $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC — $55,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseIque — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN — $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEAF WEST THEATRE COMPANY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PILGRIM SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMURALISM — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…California Community …The Green FoundationStern Sidney Memorial…Jewish Community Foun…Perenchio FoundationThe Rosalinde and Art…Wm Keck Foundation
The Ahmanson FoundationCA35.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Perenchio Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Wm Keck 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 Edward a and Ai O Shay Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.8M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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