How much does Shared Vision Charitable Foundation give?

Shared Vision Charitable Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $140,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Shared Vision Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Philanthropy (13%), Environment (11%).

Who are Shared Vision Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Xerces Society Inc ($66k), Foundation for Shamanic Studies Inc ($43k), National Park Foundation ($42k).

Does Shared Vision Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shared Vision Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shared Vision Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, David C Copley Foundation.

Where is Shared Vision Charitable Foundation based?

Shared Vision Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

Shared Vision Charitable Foundation

Shared Vision Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shared Vision 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.

$140k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$408kPhilanthropy$130kEnvironment$110kHealth$74kInternational$59kReligion$58kHuman Services$52kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $115k
$10k–50k2 grants · $26k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ABOTA FOUNDATION	$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION	$10,500
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY	$8,000
GENTLE GIANT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE	$8,000
XERCES SOCIETY	$7,000
NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL	$7,000
NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION	$7,000
DONKEYLAND	$6,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,000
THE FACE FOUNDATION	$5,000
SHARE AFRICA	$5,000
PROJECT CYOTE	$5,000
LIONS TIGERS BEARS	$5,000
LVVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$5,000
THE WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOD CENTER	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$960k · 67 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$960k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+3%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

XS
XERCES SOCIETY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +125%
NP
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +117%
AS
ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO
8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +17%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $5k
EL
EVANGELICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MT H
one grant, 2018 · $5k
P4
PASSION 4 KIDS
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -82%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals

Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Last Chance for Animals

Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.

Animals

World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals

Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Jamul-Dulzura Schools. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/53

Grantees still filing

38/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$536,500Animals$308,750International$50,000Environment$49,000Health$48,900Education$15,500Public Benefit$14,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Sempra FoundationCA18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Laurie C McGrath Foundation · The McGrath Family Foundation · Paul and Lea Levine Foundation · The Anthony & Trissa Napoleon Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Carmax Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shared Vision Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shared Vision Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home