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George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$433k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$38k14%
FY202415$38k33%
FY202315$38k13%
FY202213$40k38%
FY202112$41k17%
FY202010$37k0%
FY201913$37k23%
FY201812$34k8%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$114kInternational$85kHealth$47kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$20kReligion$14kAnimals$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IN
OH
CA
CO
NC
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDirect Relief: $36,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Network Foundation Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Trust for Santa Barbara County: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Rescue Mission: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSurgical Eye Expeditions International Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Museum of Natural History: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Canine Assistant Network Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWheeler Mission Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHoward County Historical Society: $4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBeta Theta Pi Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeroes Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTrash the Runway: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLife Centers Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatherine Peachey Fund Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Lutheran Church Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFilter of Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara County Genealogical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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About George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation

How much does George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation give?
George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), International (24%), Health (13%).
Who are George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Direct Relief ($37k), Community Health Network Foundation Inc ($28k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($19k).
Does George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation based?
George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation is based in IN.

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 36 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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