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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ARROYO SECO COMMUNICATIONS STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$2,500
FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE$2,500
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE BASEBALL$1,000
YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%LA CANADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LCF 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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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.

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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)…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pfa Strong Foundation Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 29 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shupper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shupper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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