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Shg 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U-GO | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTSG | $10,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $10,000 |
| ASHAJYOTHI USA | $10,000 |
| AKSHAYA PATRAhome of hope | $10,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $5,000 |
| ENACTE ARTS | $5,000 |
| AROGYA WORLD | $5,000 |
| FREE BOOKS FOR KIDS | $4,000 |
| AIM FOR SEVA | $2,500 |
| VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY18–24, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Shg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +93% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- IINDIASPORA2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +93%
- RTROOM TO READ4× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +23%
- NSNEW STORY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RKROBERT KATENDE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HTHack the Hood Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +75%
- ABANITA Bone grant, 2021 · $44k
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.
Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.
Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…
Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…
Form 990 - organization's mission we are a non-profit organization whose mission is to invest in and empower the next generation of women leaders in india. we primarily carry out our mission by supporting the students from india…
Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…
The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…
The mission of Farmers for Forests (F4F) is to restore and protect green cover in India in close partnership with farmers and indigenous communities. All the on-ground work is enabled by AI and multi-spectral drone technology and satellite…
Us-india policy institute (usipi)undertaking policy research on diversity and inclusive developments in india and the usa. usipis vision for equal access to freedom,justice, and opportunity in india rests on its three pillars; research &…
Healthcare and education for the needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) and the most unlike its peers is Free Books for Kids Inc. 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 19 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) — 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 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 46 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIASPORA ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds Hack the Hood Inc ↗
- Who funds 2041 FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds EnActe Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTS AND GAMES ↗
- Who funds JUST READ ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TF ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds The Nudge Foundation ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAI AASHRAYA INC ↗
- Who funds Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHAJYOTHI USA ↗
- Who funds Environmental Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds AROGYA INC DBA AROGYA WORLD ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation · Dhanam Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raj Family Private Foundation · The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · American Endowment 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 Shg 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.
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
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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