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Hyslop Shannon 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ForeKids Foundation | $36,000 |
| ELECTRI International | $12,000 |
| Jewish Coumunity High Scholl of the Bay | $10,000 |
| Chicago ACappell | $10,000 |
| MOC Marine Institute | $10,000 |
| Broken Radiance Inc | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School Inc | $6,500 |
| Uncommon Construction Inc | $6,500 |
| For Autistic Kids Foundation | $5,500 |
| Elmhurst University | $5,000 |
| Fleur De Que | $5,000 |
| Heifer international | $5,000 |
| Momentum Global | $5,000 |
| Temple Beth Or | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FFFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS7× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +49%
- CACHICAGO A CAPPELLA7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +29%
- EIELECTRI INTERNATIONAL - THE FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +322%
Funded once
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +67%
- BBBOSTON BAPTIST COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- OHOne Hope Unitedone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society and the most unlike its peers is Audubon Nature Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 118 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO A CAPPELLA ↗
- Who funds ELECTRI INTERNATIONAL - THE FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds BROKEN RADIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds unCommon Construction Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds One Hope United ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FLEUR DE QUE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP THUNDERBIRD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Lake County JATC ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL ↗
- Who funds Croatian American Society ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Goldring Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · The Azby Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hyslop Shannon Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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