· Private foundation
Shupe Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH | $150,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $35,000 |
| PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE GROVE CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK | $5,000 |
| PAW PAW LAKE SAILING FDN | $5,000 |
| TOUR OF LAKE ELLYN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BE GOOD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LIBERTY WILDLIFE | $2,487 |
| HOPE & A FUTURE | $1,234 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF MI BICYCLISTS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Shupe Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +81%- PSPHOENIX SEMINARY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $257k · revenue +9%
- HCHOPE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $147k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- GLGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -9%
- APARA PARSEGHIAN MED RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Path makes good health more accessible in 70+ countries by improving the health care people receive, creating affordable health products, and advancing effective health policies.
Usa cycling is the national governing body for cycling, making it responsible for the conduct and administration of cycling in the usa. the mission of usa cycling is to develop the sport of cycling in the united states at all levels and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paw Paw Lake Foundation. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 81 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 WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds AGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BE GOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOUR OF LAKE ELLYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN TRAILS & GREENWAYS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Mountain Bicycling Association ↗
- Who funds SARETT NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Andrew Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Express Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Shupe Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.