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Dina Lewisohn Shaw Foundation at a glance

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Dina Lewisohn 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$82kReligion$62kHealth$46kHuman Services$38kHousing & Shelter$13kPublic Benefit$10kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$2,572
Median grant
4
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$29,000
THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON$23,103
FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
GREENWOOD HOUSE$5,018
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$5,000
HOMEFRONT NJ$5,000
PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY$2,572
NA'ATIK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE$2,253
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMER$1,854
PRINCETON GARDEN$1,634
CACNA1A FOUNDATION$1,287
Individual grant recipient$460
SUNDANE INSTITUTE NY$183
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $401 → 16%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14k → 17%CACNA1A FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMER: $2k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN SERVICES: $438 → 7%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $25k → 11%FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 9%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $500 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMER: $2k → 5%THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON: $23k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $29k → 17%THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON: $17k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $13k → 17%SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS: $8k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 17%THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%SUNDANE INSTITUTE NY: $14k → 17%MISC ORGANIZATIONS: $3k → 11%SUNDANE INSTITUTE NY: $183 → 17%PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 11%PRINCETON SYMPHONY: $500 → 11%MISC ORGANIZATIONS: $460 → 11%GREENWOOD HOUSE: $27k → 11%GREENWOOD HOUSE: $5k → 11%GREENWOOD HOUSE: $5k → 11%HOMEFRONT NJ: $5k → 11%HOMEFRONT NJ: $5k → 11%HOMEFRONT NJ: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIB: $10k → 11%PRINCETON GARDEN: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOODS: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIB: $550 → 11%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 8 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$171k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+14%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & 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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $44k
  • GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED
    3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +27%
  • MD
    MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Princeton Ballet Society

Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
10
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Herrontown Wood. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETON: $44,758 · OtherTHE JEWISH CENTER OF PRINCETONPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $44,407 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSUNDANE INSTITUTE NY: $14,239 · OtherSUNDANE INSTITUTE NYFRIENDS OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIB: $10,050 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBMAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · OtherMAGEN DAVID ADOMFIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherFIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOLSUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS: $7,500 · Other+8 more: $15,854 · Other+8 moreTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $25,000 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCET…THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14,327 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP…HOMEFRONT INC: $12,843 · EducationHOMEFRONT INCThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton…+2 more: $1,390 · EducationGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $37,393 · HealthGREENWOOD HOUSE H…+1 more: $1,287 · HealthFRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOOD: $1,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$156,808Education$58,560Health$38,680Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $37,393 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14,327 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $12,843 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,572 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCACNA1A Foundation: $1,287 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HERRONTOWN WOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $401 over 1y, 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.

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.

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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 Dina Lewisohn Shaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dina Lewisohn Shaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Dina Lewisohn Shaw Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dina Lewisohn 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.

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 25 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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