· Private foundation
Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION - VIETNAM | $50,000 |
| VATSALYA GRAM AKHAND PARAM DHAM | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE EAST END | $40,000 |
| MUSEUMS AT MITCHEL GRANT AWARD | $40,000 |
| ST JUDES HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $30,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| CASA VIVA | $25,000 |
| MAKE A WISH GREATER BAY AREA | $20,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $15,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST INC | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| AUSTINS COMPASSION EXCHANGE LENDING CLOSET | $15,000 |
| BLAZING WISDOM INSTITUTE | $10,100 |
| RILEY HAWKINS AVENGERS FDN INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $330k · revenue +125%- CECHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION-VIETNAM8× · 2018–2025 · $230k · revenue +73% · 36% of their budget
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- APAKHAND PARAM DHAM OF AMERICAN CORP 2017 GRANTone grant, 2017 · $30k
- DHDR HAWA ABDI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +177%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION-VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I ↗
- Who funds Casa Viva ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BLAZING WISDOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre ↗
- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DR HAWA ABDI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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