· Private foundation
The Shaara Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,500 |
| GETTYSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $1,000 |
| GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HISTORIC GETTYSBURG ADAMS COUNTY | $250 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY | $200 |
| DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY | $100 |
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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- ABAmerican Battlefield Trust5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
- GFGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $600 · revenue +6%
- DDDWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $510 · revenue +82%
Funded once
- VMVIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +426%
- NSNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +95%
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.
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
The preservation of the gettysburg battlefield as a national memorial and to stimulate interest in the gettysburg battlefield as a patriotic shrine.
Inspire understanding and engagement in the rich history and natural resources of germanna through archaeology, education, genealogy, and preservation.
The mission of the american civil war museum is to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the american civil war and its legacies from multiple perspectives: union and confederate, enslaved and free african americans, soldiers and…
The mission of the National Civil War Museum is to serve as a national center to inspire lifelong learning of the American Civil War through the preservation and balanced presentation of the American peoples struggles for survival and…
The mission of the Army Historical Foundation (AHF) is to honor the American Soldier by preserving and presenting the history and heritage of the United States Army. AHF is the official Foundation of the National Museum of the United…
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
The great bridge battlefield & waterways history foundation protects, preserves, and promotes the history of the battle of great bridge, december 9, 1775, and the region's revolutionary war and canal history to educate the public about the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Adams County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Valor Clinic Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINCOLN FORUM ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET GETTYSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC GETTYSBURG ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
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: Adams County Community Foundation Inc · Kinsley Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Shaara Foundation Inc 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.
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.