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Arch W Shaw Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$855k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$855,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$855,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 77
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$7.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Arch W Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$855k0%
FY20241$905k100%
FY20231$725k100%
FY202273$865k25%
FY202177$703kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.8MHealth$638kEducation$232kReligion$150kArts & Culture$141kEnvironment$90kFood & Nutrition$79kHuman Services$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Arch W Shaw Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southport Congregational Church$120,0002n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$115,00020%
Hyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow$80,00026%
Middlesex School$60,00020%
Racine County Historical Society & Museum Inc$24,00021%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00020%
Naples Community Hospital Inc$20,00020%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$20,00020%
Americares Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Christian Aid Ministries$20,00020%
Christos House Inc$20,00021%
Drury University$20,00020%
Samaritan Outreach Center$20,000210%
Samaritan's Purse$20,00020%
Racine Zoological Society Inc$16,00020%
Dedham Country Day School$15,00020%
Dedham Womens Exchange Inc$15,00028%
Ravinia Festival Association$14,00020%
Little Heroes League$10,00011%
Chicago Horticultural Society$10,00020%
Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum$10,00010%
Mory's Preservation Inc$10,00024%
Sticks for Soldiers Inc$10,000230%
College of the Ozarks$10,00010%
Yale Whiffenpoof Alumni Inc$7,00023%
Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc$6,00020%
Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc$6,00020%
The Heard Museum$5,50020%
Lincoln Park Zoological Society$5,00010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Field Museum of Natural History$5,00010%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$5,00010%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Glencoe Golf Club$5,0001n/a
Denison University$4,00020%
The Spence School$4,00020%
Pomfret School Incorporated$4,00020%
The Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc$3,00011%
Childhaven$3,00020%
The Decorative Arts Trust$2,50010%
The Night Ministry$2,00020%
The Compassionate Friends Inc$2,00020%
Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc$2,00010%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$1,00010%
Environmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Arch W Shaw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow: $80,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMiddlesex School: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRacine County Historical Society & Museum Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Community Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristos House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDrury University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Outreach Center: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRacine Zoological Society Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDedham Country Day School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Womens Exchange Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Heroes League: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKlairmont Kollections Automotive Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMory's Preservation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSticks for Soldiers Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale Whiffenpoof Alumni Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOperation Hope of Fairfield Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBridgeport Rescue Mission Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heard Museum: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Park Zoological Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetField Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenison University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spence School: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPomfret School Incorporated: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildhaven: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Decorative Arts Trust: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Compassionate Friends Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Arch W Shaw Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Arch W Shaw Foundation

How much does Arch W Shaw Foundation give?
Arch W Shaw Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $855,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 77 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Arch W Shaw Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (43%), Health (16%), Education (6%).
Who are Arch W Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Southport Congregational Church ($120k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($115k), Hyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow ($80k).
Does Arch W Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arch W Shaw Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arch W Shaw Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Arch W Shaw Foundation based?
Arch W Shaw Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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