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Shierson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$20kReligion$13kHealth$13kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$7kFood & Nutrition$5kScience & Tech$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Davidson College$2,000
Davidson College Presbyterian Churc$2,000
The Pines at Davidson$2,000
Adrian College$1,000
Wake Forest University$200
Swim Across America$100
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Pines at Davidson: $2k → 10%The Pines at Davidson: $2k → 10%The Pines at Davidson: $2k → 10%The Pines at Davidson: $2k → 10%The Pines at Davidson: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NH
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MN
IL
MI
NY
MD
TN
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DC

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.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45k · 11 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
30

Total granted

$45k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+16%

Still filing today

73%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesScience & TechEnvironmentOther

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

  • TP
    THE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • Davidson College
    4× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $300 · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HL
    Hidden Lake Gardens
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • AG
    ARBORCREST GARDENSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +29%

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.

1
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Inc

The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").

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2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
American College of Health Care Administrators

The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
7
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
8
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
11
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pines At Davidson Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arborcrest Gardens. 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

22 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. 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Davidson College Presbyterian Churc — $12,100 · OtherDavidson College Presbyterian ChurcIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHidden Lake Gardens — $5,000 · OtherHidden Lake GardensCarolina Comfort Coalition — $5,000 · OtherCarolina Comfort CoalitionPeninsular Foundation of Alpha Delt — $5,000 · OtherPeninsular Foundation of Alpha DeltADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONWashington Nationals Youth Baseball — $3,000 · OtherWashington Nationals Youth Baseball+16 more — $6,050 · Other+16 moreDavidson College — $8,100 · EducationDavidson CollegeADRIAN COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationADRIAN COLLEGECANNON SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationCANNON SCHOOL INCFRIENDS OF LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF LES CHEN…+1 more — $300 · EducationTHE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE PINES AT …United Way of Iredell County Inc — $4,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $600 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyARBORCREST GARDENS — $5,000 · Science & TechBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · HealthNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION — $200 · HealthHOPE AT THE LAKE FOUNDATION — $150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $100 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $100 · Health+1 more — $53 · HealthDavidson Lands Conservancy Inc — $1,000 · EnvironmentCORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$45,150Education$14,900Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$5,700Science & Tech$5,000Health$2,603Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College — $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARBORCREST GARDENS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCarolina Comfort Coalition — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Iredell County Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANNON SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson Lands Conservancy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shierson 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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