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THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION

THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132 to it, the largest being THE MARSHA AND DAVID VEIT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$907
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$20k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What The Short Grass Foundation does

Mission

support college golf schorships and educ programs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. taft high school golf program

    $7,086 spent
    74% of program spending
  2. braden spade scholarship

    $2,500 spent
    26% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,586.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2021 Revenue 188 ($103k) Expenses 172 ($83k) Net assets 406 ($26k)2022 Revenue 261 ($144k) Expenses 179 ($87k) Net assets 1273 ($83k)2023 Revenue 265 ($146k) Expenses 282 ($137k) Net assets 1408 ($92k)2024 Revenue 87 ($48k) Expenses 191 ($93k) Net assets 722 ($47k)2025 Revenue 2 ($907) Expenses 41 ($20k) Net assets 300 ($20k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (2)Expenses (41)Net assets (300)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 2024 to 2025, from $149k to $43k (−71%).

$63k
$135k
$193k
$221k
$149k
$43k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’20
$20k
’21
$57k
’22
$9k
’23
−$45k
’24
−$19k
’25
0.5
months of
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.

202120222023
Listed222
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $570.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION’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

THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 88% — 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.

Where its funders are

THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2101% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−56% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION?
THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132 to it, the largest being THE MARSHA AND DAVID VEIT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,132 in grants to THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION?
THE MARSHA AND DAVID VEIT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SHORT GRASS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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