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The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$13MEducation$6.3MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$777kPublic Benefit$540kInternational$493kEnvironment$256kFood & Nutrition$237kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $533k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $903k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HILL SCHOOL OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT$600,000
CALDER FOUNDATION$415,405
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND$250,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$248,438
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$100,000
HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION UW$100,000
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER$55,000
SEATTLE AQUARIUM$50,000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$50,000
KNKX$50,000
VETSAID$50,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$50,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$50,000
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA$50,000
NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 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
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
OK
GA
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of The Jon and Mary Shirley 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, 52% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 70 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
43

Total granted

$24M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +0%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +161%
  • TH
    THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue +44%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -32%
  • HF
    HISPANIC FOUNDATION UNIDOS DISASTER RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
4
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
9
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
10
Portland Art Museum

The mission of the portland art museum is to engage diverse communities through art and film of enduring quality, and to collect, preserve and educate for the enrichment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Calder 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History Museums
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr15%64%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,879

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.

05the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 119 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
61/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $7,707,024 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $825,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTMuseum of Modern Art — $590,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Arts & CultureArtist Trust — $490,000 · Arts & Culture+31 more — $2,836,330 · Arts & Culture+31 moreTHE HILL SCHOOL OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT — $4,552,500 · OtherTHE HILL SCHOOL OFFICE OF ADVANCE…CALDER FOUNDATION — $935,405 · OtherCALDER FOUNDATION+54 more — $2,064,726 · Other+54 moreUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $1,825,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND — $255,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SEATTL…Pebble Beach Company Foundation — $125,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 · PhilanthropyVETSAID INC — $92,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HILL SCHOOL — $1,055,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Education+5 more — $76,000 · EducationNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $550,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $135,000 · Health+3 more — $15,500 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL — $30,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $20,000 · InternationalTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $125,000 · AnimalsORCA RELIEF CITIZENS ALLIANCE — $115,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $39,583 · Animals+1 more — $5,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$12,948,354Other$7,552,631Philanthropy$2,447,500Education$1,506,000Health$700,500International$430,000Animals$284,583

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 budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $7,707,024 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $1,825,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $1,055,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCALDER FOUNDATION — $935,405 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $825,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $590,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $550,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArtist Trust — $490,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetTHE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC — $375,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA — $350,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND — $255,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $237,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $200,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $199,440 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTSFUND — $195,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ARTS & ARTISTS INC — $175,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $132,064 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation — $125,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $125,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RONALD COASE INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetORCA RELIEF CITIZENS ALLIANCE — $115,000 over 7y, 44% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $102,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $100,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $97,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVETSAID INC — $92,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $90,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION — $80,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTacoma Art Museum — $66,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $47,576 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CALDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Artist Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ARTS & ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE RONALD COASE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ORCA RELIEF CITIZENS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GAGE ACADEMY OF ART ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds VETSAID INC ↗
  • Who funds Fuse Innovation Fund ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗

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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundThe Conru FoundationThe Bernstein Family …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Klorfine FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Grousemont FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…The Satterberg Founda…Puget Sound Energy Fo…
Seattle FoundationWA42.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Conru Foundation · The Bernstein Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Klorfine Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy 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 The Jon and Mary Shirley 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 119 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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