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Shea Homes Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIZEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE | $6,000 |
| FULCRUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOMEAID AMERICA - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| LONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND | $5,000 |
| LIVERMORE CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL INC | $2,750 |
| HOMEAID AMERICA - COLORADO | $2,500 |
| CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| YELLOW ROOF FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| HELPS INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,000 |
| WATER EDUCATION COLORADO | $1,475 |
| BIA CARES | $750 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +82% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LTLONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +82%
- HLHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +142%
- LVLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- HAHOMEAID AMERICA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- LGLION GLOBAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +30%
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.
Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.
Better leaders create a better colorado. through immersive programs, civic engagement, and lifelong connection, the leadership foundation helps people and businesses unlock their potential and use it to drive meaningful change. we develop…
The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.
The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…
To develop resources and relationships that provide financial support to los medanos college students through student scholarships, student programs and services, instructional supplies, and facility improvements.
To enhance the quality of life for all residents now and for future generations; to build permanent endowments, to provide community leadership on relevant issues, and to address needs through grantmaking. as part of our strategic plan,…
At California Transportation Foundation (CTF) our mission is simple. We recognize the best and brightest in our industry with our Annual CTF Transportation Awards program. We remember those who have given all in service to the people of…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
We provide grants to charities for activities such as youth sports, youth programs and youth education for the residents of Monterey County, California.
Mavericks community foundation engages the community, develops partnerships and inspires giving to make a positive, lasting impact on the san mateo county coast.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Develops construction, design, and trade professionals through educational endeavors, mentoring initiatives, and training activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lion Global Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Communities for Sustainable Monterey County. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIZEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds Denver Park Trust ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BIA CARES ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN OLLADA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds YELLOW ROOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Phoenix Emerald Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FIORE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds The Marina Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds California Homebuilding Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSION VIEJO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: J F Shea Company Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Richmond American Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Shea Homes 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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