How much did SHEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of SHEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

villagehurricane florenceflorence reliefbuildingscholarshipnamichi

2019

disaster reliefscholarshipchilogisticsbuildingbasketballsex

2020

food bankcoronaviruscovid reliefsexfiregreatermedical research

2021

food bankcoronaviruscovid relieffood insecuritymental illnesssexisraeli

2022

hurricane reliefrelief foodfood insecuritycoronavirusrightscovid reliefmental illness

2023

maui firefire relieffood insecuritysummitcausesabusemental illness

2024

educationalaidjewish causesfood insecuritysummitmental illnessmental health

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $103k
$10k–50k14 grants · $230k
$50k–250k29 grants · $3.1M
$250k+14 grants · $5.6M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$226M

Total assets

Largest grants

DONOR ADVISED FUNDS- CHARLES SCHWAB$951,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC$600,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$600,000
AMERIAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND$450,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS$400,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$380,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$350,000
JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH$300,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOODBANK$300,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$300,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOODBANK$250,000
ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$250,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$250,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$250,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$231,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$62M · 113 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.

113 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113

Total granted

$62M

$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+58%

Still filing today

41%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +23%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +169%
FO
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +46%

Funded once

CS
CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
one grant, 2023 · $656k
UC
UMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2017 · $515k
AJ
ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES PALM BEACH
one grant, 2017 · $250k

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

04Your field

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

Provides adoption centers, non-profit vet hospitals and clinics, & animal welfare mgmt services

Animals

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To support animal welfare efforts in pennsylvania and around the nation through direct grants

Animals

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…

Youth Development

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Feeding Pennsylvania

Feeding pennsylvania is the pennsylvania partner state association of feeding america food banks.

Philanthropy

Florida Animal Protection Foundation

Animals

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.

Education

World Food Prize Foundation

Philanthropy

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Petfinder Foundation

To prevent the euthanasia of adoptable pets and support animal welfare groups to this end.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Hills Community Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/103

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,462

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.

05the grantee network

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

91/94

Grantees still filing

75/94

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$39,078,950Education$13,070,920Philanthropy$5,954,180International$3,314,200Food & Nutrition$2,966,300Health$1,692,818Public Safety & Disaster$636,000

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.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA30.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Margaret Raphael Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Cigna Group Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Equitrans Midstream Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · In a Little While Charitable Foundation 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 organisation SHEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WEST PALM BEACH CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842128291 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WEST PALM BEACH CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Shear Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Shear Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shear Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

SHEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shear Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph