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Shrm Foundation Inc

Mobilize and equip hr to lead positive social change so that all talent and workplaces can prosper and thrive.

$774k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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 FY2017–2024.

Science & Tech$204kEducation$184kEmployment$135kCommunity Improvement$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $40,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $774,063 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $734,063 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.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROF IN HR ASSN (PIHRA) - CA$10,000
CHICAGO SHRM$10,000
SHRM-ATLANTA - GA$10,000
SHRM SAVANNAH INC$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY: $28k → 16%PHILADELPHIA SHRM: $10k → 10%The Tech Interactive: $50k → 8%PROF IN HR ASSN (PIHRA) - CA: $10k → 14%SOUTH CAROLINA SHRM STATE COUNCIL: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $43k → 13%HR MIAMI: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $49k → 15%Michigan State University Online Program: $15k → 16%SHRM-ATLANTA - GA: $10k → 8%SIOP Foundation Inc: $15k → 12%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $61k → 22%WASHINGTON SHRM STATE COUNCIL: $10k → 9%NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%CHICAGO SHRM: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS SHRM STATE COUNCIL: $10k → 15%COUNCIL FOR GLOBAL IMMIGRATION: $12k → 9%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $28k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $33k → 11%PIHRA (ORANGE CO): $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $33k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $12k → 15%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%CHICAGO SHRM: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS SHRM STATE COUNCIL: $10k → 15%SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $3k → 11%HR PEOPLE STRATEGY: $5k → 9%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
MI
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
SC
GA
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$304k · 7 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$304k
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+42%

Still filing today

43%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $76k
  • OU
    Ohio University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $71k
  • SU
    State University of Iowa
    2× · 2017–2018 · $61k

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TECH INTERACTIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +110%
  • VH
    VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS
    one grant, 2018 · $28k

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
Oregon Shrm

The purpose of the oregon shrm (affiliate of the society for human resource management)is to promote the educational and professional development of our members and to promote other non-profit purposes of the society of human resource…

Community Improvement
2
Michigan Council of the Society for Human Resource Management

To provide opportunities for local & regional shrm chapters to network, share best practices, & provide development opportunities to their attendees acting as a conduit to the society for human resource management (national shrm) which…

Community Improvement
3
National Human Resources Association Orange County Affiliate

To provide an active forum within a supportive environment for strengthening the role of human resource professionals as strategic business leaders and partners.

Community Improvement
4
Metro Milwaukee Shrm Inc

Metro milwaukee shrm is milwaukee's leading professional association for members of the human resource management profession. as one of the largest local affiliate chapters of the society for human resource management, metro milwaukee shrm…

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5
Strategic Management Society Inc

The strategic management society, inc. (society) is a not-for-profit membership organization representing over 3,000 academics, business practitioners, and consultants from more than 80 different countries who are dedicated to the…

Education
6
Louisiana Society for Human Resource Management Council

The louisiana shrm state council represents human resource professionals in the state of louisiana and is supported through the national society for human resource management (shrm).

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7
Society for Simulation in Healthcare

The Society will lead in facilitating excellence in (multi-specialty) healthcare education, practice, and research through simulation modalities.

Health
8
Society for Range Management

The mission of the society for range management is to promote the professional development and continuing education of members and the public and the stewardship of rangeland resources.

Food & Nutrition
9
American Society of Employers

To support employers by providing a broad range of information, services, and training that enables them to successfully manage their most improtant assets, their people.

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10
Human Resources Research Organization

Humrro conducts high quality research on human resource issues, develops products, and provides services to develop and apply state-of-the-art science and technology to improve the performance of individuals and teams within public and…

Social Science
11
Salt Lake Society for Human Resource Management
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12
Society of Research Administrators International

To develop, define, and promote international best practices in research management, administration, knowledge transfer and growth of the research enterprise.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Human Resource Management and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $75,797 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAOhio University — $71,315 · OtherOhio UniversityState University of Iowa — $60,978 · OtherState University of IowaUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $35,877 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS — $27,602 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUSPROFESSIONALS IN HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Other+8 more — $75,783 · Other+8 moreSOCIETY OF HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY OF HUM…THE ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL OF SHRM — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ILLINOIS S…WASHINGTON STATE SHRM — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON STA…SC SHRM STATE COUNCIL — $9,500 · Community ImprovementSC SHRM STATE …SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT — $7,965 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY FOR HU…THE TECH INTERACTIVE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH I…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $27,815 · EducationSIOP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Education
Other$382,352Community Improvement$67,465Arts & Culture$50,000Education$42,815

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $27,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL OF SHRM — $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPROFESSIONALS IN HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSIOP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR GLOBAL IMMIGRATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSociety for Human Resource Management SHRM-Atlanta INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE SHRM — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MGT PHILADELPHIA REGION CHAPTER — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGreater Miami Society for Human Resource Management — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSC SHRM STATE COUNCIL — $9,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT — $7,965 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHR PEOPLE & STRATEGY INC — $5,390 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Shrm Foundation Inc 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 · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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