· Private foundation
The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k15 grants · $36k
- $250k+1 grant · $636k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Shirley Family Foundation | $636,019 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Darby Rodeo Association | $6,150 |
| McCallum Theatre | $2,500 |
| Bitterrot Land Trust | $2,500 |
| Food Bank of Northern NV | $2,000 |
| Valley Christmas Project | $1,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club Truckee Meadows | $1,000 |
| Dog Town Canine Rescue | $1,000 |
| Nevada Humane Society | $1,000 |
| SPCA of Northern Nevada | $1,000 |
| BrightFocus Foundation | $1,000 |
| Alzheimer's Research Fund | $1,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Nevada | $500 |
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 (FY24–25, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k 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
- CCCabrillo College Foundation3× · 2019–2023 · $151k · revenue +15%
- DRDARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +657%
- SASIGMA ALPHA CHAPTER OF OMEGA NU7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Houston Foundationone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +12%
- CUCapella Universityone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CFCHILD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The Shirley Family 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 62% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 72 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 The Shirley Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds DARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA ALPHA CHAPTER OF OMEGA NU ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Pepper Foundation ↗
- Who funds BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHURCHES UNITED ↗
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: Crystal Family Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Rapp Family Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Shirley Family Charitable 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.
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.