· Private foundation
Short Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| High Country Young Life | $90,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $51,000 |
| Lake City Church | $30,000 |
| Community in Christ Lutheran Church | $30,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $20,000 |
| American Heart Association | $20,000 |
| Convoy of Hope | $20,000 |
| Moffitt Cancer Center | $20,000 |
| Home for Our Troops | $15,000 |
| Pine Lake Preparatory | $12,500 |
| Feeding America | $10,000 |
| American Family Association | $10,000 |
| Banner Elk Christian Fellowship | $10,000 |
| Big Brother Big Sister | $10,000 |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2021–2025 · $192k · revenue +38%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2018–2025 · $153k · revenue +163%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- LCLAKE CITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $35k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 125 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 CORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pine Lake Preparatory ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Short Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Short Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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