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BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND

BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $398 to it, the largest being THE GRIMM FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$398
Net assets
$268k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Brian M Sheare Memorial Fund does

Program

  1. Annual snowmobile poker run to raise funds to make grant to local charitable organizations.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 127 ($12k) Expenses 208 ($5k) Net assets 174 ($15k)2019 Revenue 112 ($11k) Expenses 772 ($20k) Net assets 64 ($6k)2020 Revenue 72 ($7k) Expenses 338 ($9k) Net assets 40 ($4k)2021 Revenue 81 ($8k) Expenses 155 ($4k) Net assets 82 ($7k)2022 Revenue 134 ($13k) Expenses 245 ($6k) Net assets 153 ($13k)2023 Revenue 2776 ($261k) Expenses 315 ($8k) Net assets 3049 ($266k)2024 Revenue 89 ($8k) Expenses 272 ($7k) Net assets 3064 ($268k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (272)Net assets (3064)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13k to $266k (+1892%).

$9k
$15k
$6k
$4k
$7k
$13k
$266k
$268k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed45333333
Joined·+1+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0200100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND is better cushioned than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve25.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND?
BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $398 to it, the largest being THE GRIMM FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $398 in grants to BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND?
THE GRIMM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing