California · Nonprofit
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,270,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($417,833). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $62k
What Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration does
Mission
The mission of Inclusion Matters by Shane's Inspiration is to create social inclusion for children with special needs through the creation of inclusive playgrounds and education programs that unite children of all abilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TThe Catalyst Program: Through the Catalyst Program, Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspirations SVP of Design/Certified Landscape Architect and Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder provide comprehensive Inclusive Playground design and development support to communities, municipalities, and families interested in creating inclusive play environments in their communities. The team provides assistance and guidance from conception through completion, including: building a stakeholder base, choosing the appropriate site, inclusive playground design, community outreach and fundraising, project and construction management, vendor selection, fiscal oversight, and comprehensive resource development. Once the playground is open, the program development team works with the community to implement Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration's successful inclusive play programs at that playground, ensuring impact and full utilization by the community. In addition to this vast array of services, the playground design and development team advocate and train organizations globally to ensure the inclusion of children with disabilities in community and school environments. Key accomplishments over the past…
$498,783 spent52% of program spendingEducation: For 23 years, Together, We Are Able, the education program provided free-of-charge by Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration, offers powerful, life-changing lessons for students with and without disabilities. It teaches character development skills that address the core issue of exclusion and bullying of children with disabilities in the school environment by bringing students of all abilities together through transformative, play-based social/emotional learning (SEL). The program has served more than 60,000 students in over 275 schools since its inception and reaches over 3,000 students in the Los Angeles region annually. The program includes the following steps: Step 1: A 60-minute classroom conversation explores how students define and perceive disabilities. Through a combination of activities, students gain a new awareness of the common ground they share with their peers with disabilities as well as real-world tools on how to engage with children who have cognitive/sensory/physical/communication differences.Step 2: Participating students with and without disabilities are paired at an Inclusion Matters playground in Los Angeles or on their school campus for…
$308,391 spent32% of program spendingCommunity Outreach: Each year, Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration hosts bi-monthly My Play Club events. My Play Club is a free, inclusive social recreation program for children of ALL abilities and their families that is held at one of their 44 Inclusive Playgrounds throughout the greater Los Angeles region. Face painting, arts & crafts, and snacks are provided, along with inclusive play on the playgrounds. Sponsors such as Crowe LLP, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Disney provide special activities or entertainment at the events. Community partners volunteer their valuable time and talents at each event, providing adaptive recreation and art-based activities, volunteers, peer buddies with typical abilities, and wellness information. This program was created in 2002 and is based on the belief that play is the common ground of childhood. Since that time, it has been replicated in communities throughout the United States and worldwide and has reached tens of thousands of children with disabilities and their caregivers.Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration participates in national/international speaking engagements that promote the power of social inclusion and inclusive play…
$147,670 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $954,844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $749k to $526k (−30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Tiffany Harris
CEO/Co-founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $868k → $306k.
13 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 funders by total. 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
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 18% · 2021 24% · 2022 34% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
17% of Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: 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 Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration?
- Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,270,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($417,833). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $3,270,387 in grants to Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $417,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 73 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