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Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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.

$548k
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$236k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$895kHealth$449kInternational$89kEducation$56kAnimals$23kFood & Nutrition$17kEmployment$10kHousing & Shelter$7kPhilanthropy$6kOther$465k
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $236k
$1,300
Median grant
20
States reached
$721k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION$236,321
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSPITAL$39,683
WEST SIDE SERVICE CONNECTOR$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION$16,150
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$11,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$11,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,200
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - KERR COUNTY$10,000
NEW MOMS$10,000
DIGS WITH DIGNITY$10,000
FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL$7,550
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$7,300
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL$7,047
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $885k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HALF A MILLION KIDS: $300 → 10%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $236k → 14%FRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS: $3k → 21%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%CORE: $1k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $236k → 14%FRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS: $1k → 21%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $194k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $84k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $552 → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $43k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%MIDWEST SHELTER HOMELESS VETS: $5k → 7%THUMBUDDY SPECIAL: $1k → 7%MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY CENTER: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY CENTER: $1k → 14%MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY CENTER: $350 → 14%MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY CENTER: $200 → 14%SARAH'S INN: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS: $10k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $200 → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $7k → 14%OPPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $4k → 14%OPPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $3k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $1k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $200 → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $1k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $1k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $4k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $4k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $3k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $1k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $200 → 14%SARAH'S INN: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 72 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
95

Total granted

$1.8M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

46%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CD
    CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $807k · revenue +90%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $248k · revenue +78%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • VF
    VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +42%
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TG
    THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
2
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
3
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
10
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kehe Cares Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Construc…Health Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Addiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%55%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/101
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,464

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.

04the grantee network

89 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 200 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/89
Grantees still filing
58/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION — $807,423 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION+16 more — $87,607 · Human Services+16 moreST GILES CATHOLIC CHURCH — $88,518 · OtherST GILES CATHOLIC CHURCHTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL — $50,547 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOUR LADY OF LEBANON CHURCH — $25,362 · OtherHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $18,510 · OtherFENWICK HIGH SCHOOL — $17,536 · Other+124 more — $251,813 · Other+124 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $247,685 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEAR…WEST SIDE CONNECTOR — $125,000 · HealthWEST SIDE CONNECTOR+20 more — $76,341 · Health+20 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $26,450 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc — $12,800 · InternationalMercy Corps — $11,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $5,000 · International+6 more — $7,100 · InternationalLowes Foundation — $22,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $10,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $5,500 · EducationA HOUSE IN AUSTIN — $4,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $2,000 · Education+3 more — $900 · EducationPAWS CHICAGO — $10,000 · AnimalsALMOST HOME FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE LEAGUE — $1,960 · Animals+3 more — $580 · AnimalsBEYOND HUNGER — $13,925 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,200 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$895,030Other$487,286Health$449,026International$88,850Education$55,900Animals$22,540Food & Nutrition$17,125

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION — $807,423 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $247,685 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CONNECTOR — $125,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $26,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLowes Foundation — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $18,510 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S INN — $17,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED — $16,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER — $13,925 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $12,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA — $11,850 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION — $11,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $11,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $11,070 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALMOST HOME FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUOSSM USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEHE CARES FOUNDATION INC — $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA HOUSE IN AUSTIN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS — $3,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Special Hockey Inc — $2,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE LEAGUE — $1,960 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHASE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILD INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CONNECTOR
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Lowes Foundation
  • Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SARAH'S INN
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED
  • Who funds BEYOND HUNGER
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME
  • Who funds VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA
  • Who funds DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION
  • Who funds Mercy Corps
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC
  • Who funds THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC
  • Who funds SKILLS FOR CHICAGO
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEMONS OF LOVE INC
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF

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.

Good Heart Work Smart FoundationIL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Irish Woods Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · The Christopher Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

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 Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 200 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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