· Private foundation
Shipley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Santa Cruz Center Educational Found | $10,000 |
| TRIPLE NICKEL INC | $7,000 |
| St Andrews Children's Clinic | $5,000 |
| Santa Cruz Humane Society | $5,000 |
| ARSOBO | $4,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $3,750 |
| CONSTRUCTING CIRCLES OF PEACE | $3,000 |
| Child Health and Resilience Mastery | $3,000 |
| Cultural Arts Committee of Nogales | $3,000 |
| PIMERIA ALTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Rich River Athletics Club | $1,250 |
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 (FY24–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSANTA CRUZ HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +64%
- CACULTURAL ARTS COMMITTE OF NOGALES ARIZON4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +3%
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TNTRIPLE NICKEL BOY SCTSone grant, 2022 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Culture advance and literature
Provide a safe haven for needy animals, reduce population, and adopt homeless animals
How this is measured
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. 8 of the 76 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.
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shipley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shipley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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