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Shivers Cancer 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.

$504k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$425kEducation$285kCommunity Improvement$200kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $184k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$84,120
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONCMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS$300,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC$100,000
TRAVIS COUNTY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT$84,120
BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $30k → 10%BASTROP COUNTY CARES: $100k → 12%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%BASTROP COUNTY CARES: $20k → 12%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $15k → 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.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-1%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +39%
  • BC
    BASTROP COUNTY CARES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $120k · revenue +98%
  • HA
    HOSPICE AUSTIN
    3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SA
    SetonUT Austin Dell Medical School University Physicians Group
    one grant, 2024 · $450k · revenue +8%
  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • AA
    AUSTIN AREA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -5%

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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
Dell Children's Medical Group

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
The Rose

The mission of the rose is saving lives through quality breast health services, advocacy and access to care for all.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kamukama Foundation. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $600,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONCMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $600,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONCMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXASRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $300,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEDELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $300,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $285,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINAUSTIN AREA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION — $200,000 · OtherAUSTIN AREA RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONTRAVIS COUNTY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT — $84,120 · Other+1 more — $45,000 · OtherSetonUT Austin Dell Medical School University Physicians Group — $450,000 · HealthSetonUT Austin Dell M…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $200,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE…LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE — $80,000 · HealthLONE STAR CIRCLE OF C…+4 more — $53,000 · Health+4 moreUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $746,772 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR GREAT…BASTROP COUNTY CARES — $119,603 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTIN — $70,000 · Human ServicesKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION — $3,500 · International
Other$2,414,120Health$783,000Philanthropy$746,772Human Services$189,603International$3,500

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 budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $746,772 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSetonUT Austin Dell Medical School University Physicians Group — $450,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAUSTIN AREA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION — $200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBASTROP COUNTY CARES — $119,603 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $23,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Georgetown Healthcare System IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Shivers Cancer Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shivers Cancer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shivers Cancer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 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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