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The Shaara Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$38kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$12kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$1kScience & Tech$1kReligion$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 22%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 8 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$43k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+123%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AB
    American Battlefield Trust
    5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
  • GF
    GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $600 · revenue +6%
  • DD
    DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $510 · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • VM
    VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +123%
  • NS
    NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -59%
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
American Civil War Museum Collection

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Pa Museum of Military Vehicles
Arts & Culture
3
Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association

The preservation of the gettysburg battlefield as a national memorial and to stimulate interest in the gettysburg battlefield as a patriotic shrine.

Arts & Culture
4
Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia Inc

Inspire understanding and engagement in the rich history and natural resources of germanna through archaeology, education, genealogy, and preservation.

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5
The American Civil War Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
6
National Civil War Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
7
American Armory Museum
Arts & Culture
8
Johnstown Historical Society
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9
The Army Historical Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Lehigh County Historical Society

To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public

Arts & Culture
11
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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12
Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways History Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Adams County Historical Society; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,500 · OtherTHE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYVIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTEGETTYSBURG AREA DOLLAR FOR SCHOLARS: $6,000 · OtherGETTYSBURG AREA DOLLAR FOR SCHOLARSMARINE CORP HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherMARINE CORP HERITAGE FOUNDATIONGETTYSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $3,200 · Other+6 moreAmerican Battlefield Trust: $15,016 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield TrustMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $1,600 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU…THE LINCOLN FORUM: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,860 · Arts & Culture+4 moreADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationADAMS COUNTY COMM…LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $2,700 · EnvironmentNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,036 · Human ServicesMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET GETTYSBURG INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementVALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health
Other$37,700Arts & Culture$19,476Education$12,000Environment$2,700Human Services$2,036Community Improvement$1,000Health$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 budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $15,016 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $2,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINCOLN FORUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAIN STREET GETTYSBURG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY: $510 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHISTORIC GETTYSBURG ADAMS COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $100 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.

Adams County Communit…Kinsley FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Adams County Community Foundation IncPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shaara Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shaara Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 24 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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