· Private foundation
Shelton H Short Jr Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARITAS | $50,000 |
| CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC | $40,000 |
| DANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL | $40,000 |
| CLARKSVILLE RURITANS INC | $35,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| CHILDSAVERS | $30,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| FEED MORE INC | $25,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT | $25,000 |
| GATEWAY HOMES INC | $25,000 |
| THE FAISON CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| ART 180 INC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
90 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue +51%
- CRCLARKSVILLE RURITANS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +37%
- CDCHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +21%
Funded once
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +55%- GHGATEWAY HOMES INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
Board approved mission is "to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, body for all"
Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
How this is measured
110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 148 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE RURITANS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY SPCA ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE VIBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRATER COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Coleman a Hunter - Irr Tr Chari
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shelton H Short Jr Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelton H Short Jr Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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