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George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer Charitable 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.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of GEORGE CLARENCE & DOROTHY SHAFFER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 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
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY$90,000
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY$20,000
FOR KIDS INC$15,000
SISTERS OF MARY BOYSTOWNGIRLSTOWN$10,000
UMD CATHOLIC STUDENT CTR$10,000
ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE$8,500
SISTER SERVANTS OF THE LORD$7,500
HOUSE OF RUTH$5,000
YMCA SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$5,000
MUSTARD SEED$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA$5,000
REACH$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$5,000
100 ENTREPENUERS$5,000
GOOD COUNSEL INC$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSTARD SEED: $6k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $5k → 14%MUSTARD SEED: $6k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $3k → 14%MUSTARD SEED: $6k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $3k → 14%MUSTARD SEED: $6k → 7%MUSTARD SEED: $5k → 7%ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $9k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

47%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • FI
    FORKIDS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +6%
  • RF
    REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN)
    5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +158%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF RUTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
  • TU
    THE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • UA
    UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +41%

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
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
2
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc

The house of ruth maryland leads the fight to end violence against women and their children by confronting the attitudes, behaviors and systems that perpetuate it, and by providing victims with the services necessary to rebuild their lives…

Human Services
3
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
4
Vision House

To provide safe and confidential transitional housing and services for homeless families.

Human Services
5
Safe Harbor

Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.

Human Services
6
Home for Homeless Women
7
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
8
Good Samaritan House of Granite City Inc

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
9
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
10
Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc

Bethany house's mission is to empower women and children escaping domestic violence by providing safe, short-term housing and comprehensive, trauma-informed services.

Human Services
11
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
12
Marian House Inc

Marian house is a holistic, healing community for women and their children who are in need of housing and support services. we provide a safe, sober, and loving environment that challenges women to respect and love themselves, confront…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Ruth and the most unlike its peers is Isaiahs Promise 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY — $450,000 · OtherUNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITYCHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY — $100,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE EPIPHANYUMD CATHOLIC STUDENT CTR — $50,000 · OtherUMD CATHOLIC STUDENT CTRSISTER SERVANTS OF THE LORD — $37,500 · Other100 ENTREPENUERS — $25,000 · Other+11 more — $70,500 · Other+11 moreFORKIDS INC — $85,000 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS INCHOUSE OF RUTH — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH+1 more — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC — $29,000 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S HOUSE LTD — $8,500 · Human ServicesREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN) — $37,500 · EducationThe George Washington University — $9,000 · EducationISAIAHS PROMISE INC — $15,000 · HealthSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC — $10,000 · InternationalFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY — $8,500 · Religion
Other$733,000Housing & Shelter$122,500Human Services$47,500Education$46,500Health$15,000International$10,000Religion$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFORKIDS INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN) — $37,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC — $29,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetISAIAHS PROMISE INC — $15,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOUSE LTD — $8,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FORKIDS INC
  • Who funds REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN)
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds ISAIAHS PROMISE INC
  • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC
  • Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE LTD
  • Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS
  • Who funds THE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER
  • Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER
  • Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
  • Who funds Samaritan House Inc

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 ProgramPA7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George Clarence & Dorothy Shaffer Charitable 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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