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Shida Foundation at a glance

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Shida Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$191kHuman Services$12kHealth$11kEnvironment$6kFood & Nutrition$3k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICAN BRANCH$2,000,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE: $3k → 12%BOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
DC
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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 8 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$232k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+30%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +127%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    3× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +45%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WR
    WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue -6%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.

1
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICA BRANCH: $2,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICA BRANCHFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $175,100 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND+6 more: $36,000 · OtherWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 · EducationNew York University: $10,000 · EducationCollege of Lake County Foundation: $10,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $9,000 · EducationEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,100 · HealthJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $4,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,100 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · EnvironmentBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,211,100Education$114,000Health$11,100Arts & Culture$7,100Environment$6,000Human Services$5,500Food & Nutrition$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICA BRANCH: $2,000,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Lake County Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY LATINA LEAGUE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN SERVICE COMMITTEE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

AbbVie FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Shida Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shida Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shida Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shida Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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