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Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $1,450,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,710,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $260,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles$55,000
United Friends of the Children$55,000
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
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens$50,000
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)$50,000
College Match c/o Community Partners$40,000
Blind Children's Center$35,000
Safe Place for Youth, SPY$35,000
Deaf West Theatre Company Inc.$35,000
Everybody Dance LA! (formerly The Gabriella Foundation)$35,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)$35,000
Villa Esperanza Services$35,000
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$35,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 34 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$2.8M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $840k 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
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

  • 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

  • YEAR UP INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • READY TO SUCCEEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +667%
  • NV
    NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +68%
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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 74 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFT: $518,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFTTHE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS: $175,000 · OtherTHE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONSDEAF WEST THEATRE: $115,000 · OtherDEAF WEST THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPS ARTS: $90,000 · Other+32 more: $767,203 · Other+32 moreSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $210,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCHarmony Project: $85,000 · EducationHarmony ProjectThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $85,000 · EducationThe Blind Childrens Cen…COLLEGE 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 OPERA COMPANY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $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 ServicesMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPS ARTS: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHarmony Project: $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $55,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDEAF WEST THEATRE COMPANY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetYEAR UP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF PILGRIM SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 15% 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
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 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

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 Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward a and Ai O Shay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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