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Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$355k
Granted FY2017
6
Grants FY2017
5
Organizations funded FY2017
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99% of Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust’s FY2017 grant dollars went to The Rotary Foundation Of Rotary International, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2017
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2017
$350,000
States reached, FY2017
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
House of Mexico$2,0001n/a
Uc San Diego Foundation$1,50010%
San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America$50010%
John Muir Association of Parents Inc$1001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

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About Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust

How much does Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust give?
Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $355,100 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are International (99%), Education (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: House of Mexico ($2k), Uc San Diego Foundation ($2k), San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America ($500).
Does Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust based?
Daniel Shannon Charitable Trust is based in CA.

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 6 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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