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Shupper Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$56k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Youth Development$465kEducation$341kCommunity Improvement$275kHousing & Shelter$35kHealth$17kPhilanthropy$17kRecreation & Sports$16kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$137k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL$56,054
PFA STRONG FOUNDATION$5,000
GOD'S WAITING ROOM$4,000
FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE$2,500
ARROYO SECO COMMUNICATIONS STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$2,500
YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION$1,000
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE BASEBALL$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COASTLANDS CHURCH: $2k → 13%PFA STRONG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $3k → 14%RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE: $2k → 13%HRS TRUE HOPE: $2k → 6%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $5k → 14%STADIA CHURCH PLANTING: $5k → 13%EAGLE ATHLETIC FUND-EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%CANTWELL-SACRED HEART OF MARY BASEBALL: $1k → 14%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $5k → 14%S CA FCA BASEBALL: $2k → 14%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $5k → 14%S CA FCA BASEBALL: $1k → 14%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $5k → 14%S CA FCA BASEBALL: $1k → 14%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $5k → 14%S CA FCA BASEBALL: $1k → 14%FRONT PORCH MINISTRY: $3k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $56k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $56k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $38k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $31k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $29k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $28k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $26k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $16k → 14%MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 14%GOD'S WAITING ROOM: $4k → 14%GOD'S WAITING ROOM: $3k → 14%LCF EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LCF EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%HARAMBEE MINISTRIES: $150k → 14%HARAMBEE MINISTRIES: $150k → 14%PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $2k → 14%HARAMBEE MINISTRIES: $50k → 14%HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER: $11k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $100k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $100k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $25k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $20k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $20k → 14%FELLOWSHIP MONROVIA: $8k → 14%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 15 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$1.1M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+67%

Still filing today

20%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • HC
    HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $381k · revenue +20% · 29% of their budget
  • MH
    MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +27%
  • GH
    GREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +67%
  • SN
    STADIA NEW CHURCH STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
Pasadena Christian School

The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.

Education
2
Peanut Butter Players
3
West End Players
Arts & Culture
4
Pacific Theological Seminary

To deliver biblically-based education and ministry mentoring through graduate-level degree programs.

Education
5
Pacific Christian Academy

Pacific christian academy is committed to offering families a superior bible-based education that equips students to be socially relevant leaders who are fully prepared for higher achievement.

Education
6
Pepperdine University

Pepperdine university is a christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. see schedule o for more…

Education
7
Pacific Bible College

Pacific bible college is a christ-centered learning community committed to equipping students to become biblically competent, academically proficient, spiritually cultivated, and culturally engaged servant leaders.

Education
8
Plaza Heights Christian Academy

The mission of phca is to teach biblical truth in an environment of academic excellence that prepares students to impact the world for christ.

9
Pacific School of Religion

Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…

Education
10
California Prestige University

Presbyterian theological seminary in america exists to servce the korean presbyterian church abroad (kpca) and the kingdom of god by equipping students for effective service to god, his church, and the world he sends us to evangelize.

11
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
12
Pasadena Playhouse Alumni & Associates

The purpose of our association is to 1) hold together people who have been associated with the pasadena playhouse state theatre, especially its college of theatre arts, 2) encourage among its members an interest in theater education, 3)…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pfa Strong Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Front Porch Ministry. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $272,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE — $52,500 · OtherFULLER YOUTH INSTITUTEFRONT PORCH MINISTRY — $27,500 · OtherFRONT PORCH MINISTRYLCF EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherLA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $18,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPE — $16,000 · Other+15 more — $40,700 · Other+15 moreHARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC — $381,282 · Youth DevelopmentHARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INCMARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL — $297,754 · EducationMARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL+1 more — $1,500 · EducationGREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsPFA STRONG FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHRS TRUE HOPE INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$447,200Youth Development$381,282Education$299,254Housing & Shelter$35,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Philanthropy$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC — $381,282 over 5y, 29% of budgetMARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL — $297,754 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHRS TRUE HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC
  • Who funds MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds GREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRONT PORCH MINISTRY
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PFA STRONG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HRS TRUE HOPE INC
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · Louis and Donna Jones Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shupper 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shupper Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shupper Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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