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F & O Shortlidge Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Housing & Shelter$42kInternational$39kFood & Nutrition$37kHuman Services$35kHealth$34kEnvironment$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kAnimals$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$915k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$8,563
EARTH JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$8,285
PHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH$4,142
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$4,142
NATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE$3,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$2,500
MOVE FOR HUNGER INC$2,500
OREGON FOOD BANK$2,142
NORTHWEST HARVEST$2,142
PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION$2,000
FRIENDS OF FELINES$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOMS HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 6%SUPPORT HOMELESS VETERANS: $2k → 7%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 6%SOUND GENERATIONS: $4k → 9%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$158k · 14 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
37

Total granted

$158k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+34%

Still filing today

79%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +50%
  • NH
    NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%
  • PA
    PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES
    4× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -38%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • MH
    MOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +53%

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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
7
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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8
Mazon a Jewish Response to Hunger

Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. See Schedule O for more details.

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9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
11
Water for People

Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…

International
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Animal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 55 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $16,642 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMOREGON FOOD BANK — $10,842 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION — $7,475 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONFRIENDS OF FELINES — $6,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF FELINESSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $5,000 · OtherPHILABUNDANCE SUMMER MATCH PROGRAM — $4,400 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER — $4,400 · OtherFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICE OF DELAWARE C — $4,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $8,167 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYFRIENDS OF FELINES INC — $5,000 · OtherAURORA COMMONS — $6,975 · OtherAURORA COMMONSREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $4,400 · Other+14 more — $35,671 · Other+14 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,042 · InternationalSave The Childre…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,713 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUND…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $3,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RE…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,900 · InternationalPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $15,437 · Human ServicesPHOENIXVILLE A…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…MOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $7,000 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOUSE IN…SOUND GENERATIONS — $4,400 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATI…SUPPORT HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $26,311 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…COVENANT HOUSE INC — $3,500 · HealthCOVENANT HOUS…NAVOS — $2,400 · HealthNAVOSALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,400 · Health+1 more — $600 · HealthPHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH — $19,079 · Housing & ShelterPHOENIXVILL…NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL AL…PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $4,400 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HO…EARTHJUSTICE — $8,285 · EnvironmentFuse Innovation Fund — $3,500 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $3,475 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,967 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationNATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $3,000 · EducationOxford Educational Foundation — $1,000 · Education
Other$119,472International$42,655Human Services$38,837Health$34,211Housing & Shelter$30,479Environment$18,727Education$11,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $26,311 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH — $19,079 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $16,642 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $15,437 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,042 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $10,842 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $8,285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $8,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,713 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA COMMONS — $6,975 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FELINES INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS — $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $3,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $3,475 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,967 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING — $2,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVOS — $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORT HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxford Educational Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Real Progress Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Laird Norton Family F…Raynier Institute & F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Philadelphia Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Albertsons Compan…
Seattle FoundationWA20.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Laird Norton Family Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Albertsons Companies 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 F & O Shortlidge Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Native Alliance Against Violence Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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