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· Private foundation
GEORGE CLARENCE & DOROTHY SHAFFER
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$210k
Granted FY2024
19
Grants
8
Communities
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of GEORGE CLARENCE & DOROTHY SHAFFER’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
consortium
2022
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2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 19 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY$90,000
- CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY$20,000
- FOR KIDS INC$15,000
- UMD CATHOLIC STUDENT CTR$10,000
- SISTERS OF MARY BOYSTOWNGIRLSTOWN$10,000
- ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE$8,500
- SISTER SERVANTS OF THE LORD$7,500
- MUSTARD SEED$5,000
- FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA$5,000
- GOOD COUNSEL INC$5,000
- 100 ENTREPENUERS$5,000
- REACH$5,000
- YMCA SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$5,000
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$5,000
- HOUSE OF RUTH$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$937k · 17 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
7
Total granted
$937k
$23k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+39%
+62%
Still filing today
24%
43%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- HOHOUSE OF RUTH5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +39%
- GCGOOD COUNSEL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
- FMFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TUTHE URBAN RENEWAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +447%
- RRRED ROVERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
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Good Samaritan House of
The good samaritan house enriches the lives of homeless women and children by supporting them in a loving christian environment. while providing safe and temporary housing, basic human needs and supportive services, the good samaritan…
Housing & Shelter
2
Christ House
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
Housing & Shelter
3
Visitation House Inc
Grounded in the gospel and in the culture of life of the catholic church, visition house is a home that welcomes women in crisis pregnancies in the spirit of elizabeth, who welcomed her cousin the virgin mary with awe-filled joy and true…
Human Services
4
Home for Homeless Women
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5
House of Ruth Inc
House of ruth provides housing support services to individuals and families infected and affected by hiv and aids
Health
6
House of Hope
Assisting and housing females in recovery
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7
Sarahs House
Provide temporary housing and support assistance to pregnant women in need
Human Services
8
St Francis House
St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.
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9
Hospitality House
Giving home, health and hope to women experiencing homelessness
Housing & Shelter
10
Joseph's House Inc
To create a home and community for homeless men and women living with hiv in the district of columbia, to provide health care and related services to residents in the house; to coordinate those same services for some former residents, and…
Health
11
St Francis House
Empowering families with chidren to achieve permanent and stable self-sufficiency by providing case management; nutritious meals; and educational, health and career resources; in a safe and secure environment.
Housing & Shelter
12
House of the Good Shepherd
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Ruth and the most unlike its peers is Good Counsel Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$899,500Housing & Shelter$37,500Human Services$18,500Health$9,000Religion$8,500Community Improvement$5,000Animals$5,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation GEORGE CLARENCE & DOROTHY SHAFFER 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~20 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 522101042 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer?
Find your warmest path to George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines