· Private foundation
Shirar Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMILION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| RETRIEVING FREEDOM | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL & WESTERN NC | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| YMCA ANNUAL CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST #839 | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| GLOBAL VENTURES MINISTRY | $200 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Shirar Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +83%
- RFRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +26%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC2× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- ODOPEN DOORS USAone grant, 2022 · $15k
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +78%
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.
Insight for living is a christian radio ministry that teaches the practical application of the bible. insight for living reaches audiences through radio sermons, compact disc recordings, dvd's, podcasts, internet access, books,…
Bring help and hope in the united states and around the world through programs that include hunger relief, medical care, clean water, child development and disaster relief.
Christian freedom international (cfi) aids, equips, and advocates for persecuted christians who are oppressed or persecuted for their faith. cfi provides spiritual and physical help for suffering christians to live in the dignity of god's…
Our mission is to provide traditional churches with consultation, pastors and counseling.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The mission of Braille Bibles International is to make a positive difference in the lives of visually impaired people by providing them access to God's Holy Word. Braille Bibles International provides Bibles in Braille, Large Print and…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 36 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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
- Who funds MY KINSMEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Central IA Center for Independent Living ↗
- Who funds OPEN THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shirar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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