· Private foundation
George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of GEORGE E SHORTLE AND CATHERINE H SHORTLE 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF INDIANA | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $4,500 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $3,000 |
| THE MOODY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $2,500 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $2,500 |
| TRASH THE RUNWAY | $2,500 |
| TIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CAMPTOWN INC | $1,000 |
| CATHERINE PEACHEY FUND | $1,000 |
| INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
DIRECT RELIEF9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +94%- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +38%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +40%
- LCLIFE CENTERS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -11%
- GLGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission and the most unlike its peers is Trash the Runway. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRASH THE RUNWAY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE PEACHEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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
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 E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle 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.
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.