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· Private foundation
L SHAFER FB VAR CHARITIES XXXXX8001
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$165k
Granted FY2025
17
Grants
1
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of L SHAFER FB VAR CHARITIES XXXXX8001’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2025 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$9,734
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WESTERN MONROE HISTORICAL SOC$9,734
- DAVID HOCHSTEIN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$9,734
- AL SIGL CENTER FOR$9,734
- THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$9,734
- ROCHESTER MUSEUMSCIENCE CENTER$9,734
- AMERICAN MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY$9,734
- THE SALVATION ARMY INC$9,734
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER$9,734
- BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORP$9,734
- SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY$9,734
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY$9,734
- MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$9,734
- LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NY INC$9,734
- ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,734
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC$9,734
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 16%. 41% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
2
Total granted
$1.1M
$14k
Still filing today
41%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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
- MOMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +5%
- TMTHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +21%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RMROCHESTER MUSEUM &one grant, 2018 · $7k
- AMAMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURALone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
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The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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2
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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3
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world (Continued in Schedule O)
Arts & Culture
4
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Museum and independent research library (see Schedule O)located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). The…
Education
6
American Museum of Natural History
Nat history museum, planetarium, collections, library, scientific research, graduate school (ph.d./ comp biology & mat/education), education & exhibitions (sch o).
Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…
Youth Development
8
Chicago Zoological Society
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
Animals
9
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
10
Brooklyn Public Library
It is the mission of the library to ensure the preservation and transmission of (see schedule o) society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of brooklyn with free and open access to information for education,…
Education
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Botanical Garden and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$654,340Arts & Culture$129,424Animals$129,424Environment$129,424Education$64,712
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 MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORP ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation L SHAFER FB VAR CHARITIES XXXXX8001 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~46 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
high risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.6× since.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 166051879 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 46 months of cash on hand.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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