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The Shah Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $61,000 |
| SCOTT CENTER FOR AUTISM | $5,000 |
| COCOA POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BAPS CHARITIES | $2,501 |
| MANAV MANDIR INC | $1,554 |
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 (FY20–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 87% of The Shah Family 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, 93% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 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; $3k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $413k
- HTHOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL ACADEMY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $271k
- MMMANAV MANDIR INC3× · 2020–2025 · $124k · revenue -29%
Funded once
- SSSHREE SWAMINARAYAN GADI SANSTHANone grant, 2020 · $250k
- BBAPSone grant, 2020 · $200k
- RERUDRESH EDUCATION TRUST FUNDone grant, 2022 · $108k
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.
Provide toys and gifts to underprivileged children of brevard county, florida
To deliver a comprehensive array of behavioral health services in the state of florida to eligible children,adolescents, adults, elders and families in the organization's service area and to subcontract with qualified, direct service,…
Space coast habitat for humanity believes that everyone deserves a decent place to live. we bring people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The mission of the brevard homeless coalition is to provide a framework of services to prevent and eliminate homelessness in brevard county.
To promote, develop, support and inspire our members, with integrity and professionalism, in order to continuously improve public education, while building bridges among teachers, students, parents, and the community.
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
Legal representation of children.
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hunger Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jax Indian Events Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 MANAV MANDIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC COCOA VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Cocoa Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HUNGER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BAPS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JESS PARRISH MEDICAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JAX INDIAN EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SURF MUSEUM INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · The Margaret Heins Foundation · Jim and Jonnie Swann Corp · Simpkins Family Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Shah Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
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.
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