North Carolina · Private foundation
Short Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $467k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Short Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $447k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $373k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $308k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $251k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $234k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $150k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $123k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $130k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc | $227,681 | 8 | 4% |
| Young Life | $192,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $152,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $61,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Family Association Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake City Church | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope House Inc | $32,800 | 4 | 12% |
| Community in Christ Lutheran Church | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Banner Elk Christian Fellowship | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc | $227,681 | 8 | 4% |
| Young Life | $192,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $152,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $61,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Family Association Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake City Church | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope House Inc | $32,800 | 4 | 12% |
| Community in Christ Lutheran Church | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Banner Elk Christian Fellowship | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Peninsula Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pine Lake Preparatory | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Suncoast Humane Societyinc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| National Park Foundation | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wine to Water | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Guideposts Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Hinds' Feet Farm Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sunninghill Jill Kids | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| K-Love Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Think Pink Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be the Light Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arbor Dale Presbyterian | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The High Country Charitable Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Boone United Methodist Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Farrah Turner Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Relatives Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunlight Community Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($904k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Short Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation · The Peninsula Community Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Covia Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Short Family Foundation
- How much does Short Family Foundation give?
- Short Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $466,722 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Short Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Arts & Culture (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Short Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc ($228k), Young Life ($192k), Samaritan's Purse ($153k).
- Does Short Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Short Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Short Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation.
- Where is Short Family Foundation based?
- Short Family Foundation is based in NC.
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