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SHOES FOR THE HOMELESS INC
Our mission is to provide shoes, and accessories, to the homeless and to those in need, free of charge, in our local communities.
$178k
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
immediatebuildhealthself-sufficiencypersonalcounselinghousing
2019
shelter deptself-sufficiencycounselingchildrenpersonalbasic necessitiesclothing
2020
basic necessitiesself-sufficiencypersonalcounselingfoodclothing
2021
self-sufficiencypersonal
2022
studentsuscfacultyteachingacademicprivatestaff
2023
studentsuscfacultyteachingacademicprivateinsecurity
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $178,270.
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Median grant
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States reached
$32k
Total assets
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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Rescue Mission Alliance
We serve the poor and homeless by providing food, shelter, and life changing recovery programs.
Human Services
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Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
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West Hollywood Community Housing Corp
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Housing & Shelter
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Selah Neighborhood Homeless Coalition
Our mission is to build a community-led response to homelessness in los angeles that addresses the needs of our most vulnerable neighbors and activates an empowered coalition of participants, volunteers and partners.
Human Services
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Shelter Partnership Inc
Collaboratively solving homelessness in los angeles county.
Housing & Shelter
6
Inner City Law Center
Fighting for justice and housing by providing legal representation for the homeless and working poor.
Crime & Legal
7
United Way Inc
We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, (cont. on sch. o) donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.
Philanthropy
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Neighborhood Housing Services of
Neighborhood housing services of los angeles county (nhs) mission is to serve as a catalyst for residents, business, and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for…
Housing & Shelter
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Food Forward Inc
Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.
Food & Nutrition
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The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles
The mayor's fund for los angeles helps address angelenos most critical needs, including preventing homelessness and housing insecurity and addressing the needs of foster youth.
Philanthropy
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Los Angeles County
To assist persons with developmental disabilities.
Human Services
12
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through the market match program at 22 farmers markets, publication of peoples guide to welfare, health and other services, and involvement with low income residents in…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Rescue Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
6,641/49,782
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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.
Shelter Partnership IncCA26.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · California Community Foundation · United Way Inc · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ahmanson Foundation · Food Forward Inc · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities · Henry L Guenther 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.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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