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Sha'Nini George 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMAN ANIMAL BOND | $20,000 |
| SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| BUHL CLUB | $10,000 |
| BUHL PARK | $5,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SKYLINE SUMMIT PARK RECREATION | $5,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $3,000 |
| STRIMBU MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| MAPLE LANE FARMS | $1,500 |
| MESZAROS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOROUGH OF ELLWOOD CITY | $1,000 |
| WATERFIRE | $1,000 |
| OUTDOOR IMMERSION | $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 (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- THTHE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +44%
- IMInspiring Minds5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +40%
- TOTAILS OF HOPE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- YCYARBCC CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- VMVETERANS MENTOR CORPSone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
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To provide services to homeless animals
To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in lifelong homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of animals
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
To connect people with animals and enrich lives by providing care and resources while promoting respect and compassion.
To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
Provide shelter and humane treatment of animals of herkimer county including spaying and neutering
Auburn valley humane society enriches the lives of companion animals and people through animal sheltering, programs, services and community engagement
The mission of wvhs is to serve the community through education, protection and pet adoptions. we continue our mission by taking care of displaced pets, rescuing injured and lost animals, providing spay/neuter programs, investigating…
The prevention of cruelty to animals through pet adoption, education, and spay/neuter programs within the community of mercer county, kentucky.
The snake river animal shelter mission is to improve and save animal lives by promoting quality care and compassion through adoption and education in the upper snake river valley. at the snake river animal shelter, we aim to create and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buhl Park Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Human-Animal Bond Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 50 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 BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
- Who funds TAILS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB ↗
- Who funds BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR IMMERSION ↗
- Who funds SHENANGO VALLEY URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Winner Family Foundation · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sha'Nini George 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.
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