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The Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation at a glance

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The Kim and Jon Shirley 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.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$585k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$159kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$18kAnimals$5k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $585k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seattle Art Museum$585,435
The Metropolitan Museum of Art$35,000
Wellesley College$25,000
SOLA$20,000
Tate Americas Foundation$10,000
Oklahoma City Museum of Art$10,000
Allied Arts$10,000
Oklahoma Contemporary$10,000
Pacific Northwest Ballet$10,000
Oklahoma University Foundation$6,250
The Homeless Alliance$5,000
On the Boards$5,000
Old Dog Haven$5,000
Sound Generations$5,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Sound Generations: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%Sound Generations: $5k → 9%Sound Generations: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%Sound Generations: $5k → 9%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 10 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$2.8M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2023–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +28%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +36%
  • SG
    SOUND GENERATIONS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • OU
    Oklahoma University
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
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
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Arts and Design

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

Arts & Culture
6
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The Nelson Gallery Foundation

Encouragement of public interest in art.

Arts & Culture
9
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
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
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
12
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $2,394,812 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM+10 more: $238,200 · Arts & Culture+10 moreWellesley College: $160,000 · EducationSeattle Symphony: $35,000 · OtherSOLA: $20,000 · OtherOklahoma University Foundation: $18,750 · OtherOklahoma University: $6,250 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherON THE BOARDS: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherSOUND GENERATIONS: $30,000 · Human ServicesPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $17,800 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOLD DOG HAVEN: $5,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,633,012Education$160,000Other$91,500Human Services$30,000Housing & Shelter$22,800Animals$10,000Health$5,000Philanthropy$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $2,394,812 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWellesley College: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $44,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $17,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 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.

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.

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Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.
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How do I get to The Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kim and Jon Shirley 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 26 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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