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Shoppinggives Foundation
Shoppinggives & the SHOPPINGGIVES FOUNDATION have partnered together to create a movement and drive massive impact for the causes and organizations that support our communities and people worldwide through integrated technologies.
Read this first · the figures below need context
84% of Shoppinggives Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $3,028,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,090,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,912 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $346k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAYPAL GIVING FUND | $2,556,452 |
| WELNESS IN THE SCHOOL INC | $141,667 |
| BOTTOME LINC INC | $85,971 |
| SURFRIDER | $62,500 |
| BLACK TRANS NATION | $55,411 |
| NALIPOP | $30,443 |
| THE FARMLINK PROJECT | $20,097 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $17,148 |
| LOVELAND FOUNDATION | $9,239 |
| REGENERATIVE ORGANIC STANDARD | $9,039 |
| SHARE WINTER FOUNDATION | $8,011 |
| WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATI | $7,659 |
| GLOBAL GREEN | $7,341 |
| SPACE FOR GRANTS | $6,283 |
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | $6,010 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $240k · revenue +7%
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $215k · revenue +544%
- NINALIPOP INC2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +7% · 98% of their budget
Funded once
- RFRIVERSTYX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -52%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +65%
- HFHUNGER FREE AMERICA INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief Us and the most unlike its peers is Nalipop Inc. 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 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Black Trans Nation LLC ↗
- Who funds NALIPOP INC ↗
- Who funds Global Green USA ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Share Winter Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds Regenerative Organic Alliance ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc ↗
- Who funds Space for Giants USA Inc ↗
- Who funds Animal Equality ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEAR AND FAR ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Great Barrier Reef Foundation USA Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pledgeling Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Shoppinggives 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.
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.
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