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Shine Together Inc

To create economic advancement for multiple generations, by partnering with young mothers to further their education, build life and career skills, and nuture their children's development.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MHuman Services$415kHealth$305k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $62,976 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,976 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARMONY AT HOME$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $529k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HARMONY AT HOME: $130k → 12%HARMONY AT HOME: $130k → 12%HARMONY AT HOME: $130k → 12%Harmony at Home: $80k → 12%HARMONY AT HOME: $34k → 12%HARMONY AT HOME: $25k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 5 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.6M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+81%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • HA
    HARMONY AT HOME
    6× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +258%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $401k · revenue +20%
  • CLINICA SIERRA VISTA
    2× · 2017–2020 · $161k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • CY
    Community Youth Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue +279%
  • BB
    BRIGHTER BEGINNINGSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +76%
  • LC
    LATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +81%
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
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
2
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
3
The Alliance for Community Wellness Dba La Familia Counseling Services

La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.

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4
Chico Feminist Womens Health Center dba Womens Health Specialists

Womens Health Specialists vision is a world where women control their own bodies,reproduction, and sexuality. The center is dedicated to providing women-controlledhealth care for all women.

Health
5
Latino Leadership Council Inc

To advance the wellness and leadership capacity of Latino populations.

Health
6
Center for Human Development

Center for human development is a california non-profit corporation dedicated to creating opportunities for people to realize their full potential. chd operates a spectrum of services for at-risk youth, individuals, families and…

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7
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
8
Health Connected

Health Connected equips young people and trusted adults with knowledge and skills to thoughtfully navigate the intersections of relationships, bodies, and digital well-being.

Education
9
Active Community Health Center of Broward Inc

We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…

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10
California Youth Services

We provide education, counseling, and intervention programs to support individuals and families facing substance abuse, behavioral, and mental health challenges. Our mission is to empower youth and fimilies with the skills, resources, and…

Human Services
11
Lowell Community Health Center Inc

Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…

Health
12
Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau

Comprehensive Family Service System.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brighter Beginnings; the most unlike its peers is Community Youth Ministries. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $401,141 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INCCLINICA SIERRA VISTA: $160,954 · HealthCLINICA SIERRA VISTABRIGHTER BEGINNINGS: $44,410 · HealthBRIGHTER BEGINNINGSLATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES: $33,272 · HealthHARMONY AT HOME: $528,991 · Human ServicesHARMONY AT HOMEFresno Barrios Unidos: $456,758 · Crime & LegalFresno Barrios UnidosCommunity Youth Ministries: $74,349 · Youth DevelopmentACT for Women and Girls: $71,666 · Education
Health$639,777Human Services$528,991Crime & Legal$456,758Youth Development$74,349Education$71,666

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARMONY AT HOME: $528,991 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetFresno Barrios Unidos: $456,758 over 2y, 17% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $401,141 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLINICA SIERRA VISTA: $160,954 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACT for Women and Girls: $71,666 over 2y, 11% of budgetLATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES: $33,272 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Sierra Health Foundat…The California Endowm…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program ManagementCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The California Endowment · 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 Shine Together Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shine Together Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.

    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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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