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Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Charles H and Beverly E Shaw 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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$279kHealth$158kHuman Services$108kReligion$106kHousing & Shelter$91kArts & Culture$87kEnvironment$65kInternational$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St James Day School$5,000
Foundation for Homan Square$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Portico$2,000
Chicago Hope Academy$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
Kirkland Town Library$500
ITOG-Inernat'l Thyroid Oncology Grp$500
Kirkland Art Center$500
Kirkland Trails Inc$500
Friends of the Green Bay Trail$500
Mohawk Valley Health$500
Alzheimer's Association$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $300 → 8%Children's Home Society of Florida: $800 → 13%Community House: $1k → 7%Charity Navigator: $10k → 7%Impact 100 Martin: $1k → 10%Community House: $1k → 7%Lange Foundation: $300 → 14%Community House: $500 → 7%Madonna Mission: $2k → 14%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Madonna Mission: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Madonna Mission: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%North Shore Senior Center: $1k → 14%Clinton Central School District Foundation: $1k → 16%Harlem Children's Zone: $500 → 17%Clinton Central School District Foundation: $500 → 16%Infant Welfare Society of Evanston: $5k → 14%Infant Welfare Society of Evanston Inc: $800 → 14%Infant Welfare Society of Evanston Inc: $500 → 14%Night Ministry: $1k → 14%Night Ministry: $500 → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $500 → 14%Family Focus: $15k → 14%Family Focus: $4k → 14%Family Focus: $600 → 14%Children's Home and Aid: $6k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society of IL: $5k → 14%Children's Home & Aid: $1k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society: $550 → 14%Children's Home & Aid: $500 → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $500 → 14%Howard Area Community Center: $6k → 14%Madonna Mission: $1k → 14%Madonna Mission: $1k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
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NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 91 repeat orgs$372k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
159

Total granted

$822k
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +41%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +20%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • OL
    Our Lady Star of the Sea Church
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • CF
    Children's Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 257 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
134/134
Grantees still filing
98/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE MOUNTAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $56,500 · OtherWHITE MOUNTAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INCPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $45,900 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCCatholic Theological Union: $35,500 · OtherOur Lady Star of the Sea Church: $25,000 · Other+129 more: $551,582 · Other+129 moreBig Shoulders Fund: $21,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $15,900 · EducationLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $11,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $6,000 · EducationNational Louis University: $5,000 · EducationADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $4,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $3,500 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $3,100 · Education+12 more: $19,560 · EducationFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $19,100 · Human ServicesUCAN: $15,250 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $13,050 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $10,000 · Human ServicesINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $6,300 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community Center: $6,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Mission: $5,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 · Human Services+9 more: $11,400 · Human ServicesRush University Medical Center: $30,000 · HealthHPS Helping People Succeed Inc: $11,740 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $11,000 · HealthA JUST HARVEST: $10,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $7,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,870 · HealthINTERNATIONAL THYROID ONCOLOGY GROUP (ITOG): $3,000 · Health+6 more: $9,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION: $69,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HUUB INC: $10,675 · Community ImprovementFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,800 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $12,035 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,268 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 · InternationalMercy Corps: $2,300 · International+1 more: $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL: $36,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15,500 · Environment350ORG: $3,050 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,950 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · Environment
Other$714,482Education$90,060Human Services$89,600Health$85,610Community Improvement$79,675International$67,703Environment$58,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION: $69,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $45,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL: $36,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $19,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $15,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCAN: $15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $13,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClinton ABC Program Inc: $12,300 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $12,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHPS Helping People Succeed Inc: $11,740 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUUB INC: $10,675 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKIRKLAND TRAILS INC: $10,500 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetA JUST HARVEST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $6,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadonna Mission: $5,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD NEWS PARTNERS: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $5,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Louis University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALTAIRE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $4,600 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 FOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UCAN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds Clinton ABC Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds HPS Helping People Succeed Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE HUUB INC ↗
  • Who funds KIRKLAND TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds A JUST HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗

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.

Dr Scholl FoundationThe Chicago Community…Patrick G and Shirley…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Alexandra …Jewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Robert R McCormick Fo…36 Foundation IncJames and Catherine D…Frank Family Foundati…
Dr Scholl FoundationIL38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dr Scholl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Alexandra Nichols Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · 36 Foundation Inc · James and Catherine Denny Foundation · Frank Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • The Huub Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Winchester Seniors Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 257 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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