· Private foundation
Martha E Sanfilippo Foundation Co Shannon & Snyder
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of MARTHA E SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION CO SHANNON & SNYDER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLYCARE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| FCA ORG 2415F00 | $25,000 |
| HELP HOPE LIVE | $20,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $20,000 |
| ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND | $15,000 |
| CRU | $15,000 |
| STOCKTON HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| EMMAUS INN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ANTHEM CARES THROUGH SERVICE | $10,000 |
| AUTISM TREE | $10,000 |
| WHEEL CHAIR FOUNDATION | $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 (FY18–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Martha E Sanfilippo Foundation Co Shannon & Snyder’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- TKTHE KING'S ACADEMY5× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +58%
ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +193%- HAHUI ALOHA KIHOLO6× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +300%
Funded once
- SISewa International Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
PAI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +96%- AVALMADEN VALLEY COUNSELING SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +28%
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.
Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…
Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…
Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.
The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
Kalani's mission is to model new ways of being in the world by: living simply, learning joyfully, experiencing community, and honoring the land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Maka Onaona and the most unlike its peers is Golden Coast Care. 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 23 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 54 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 GOLDEN COAST CARE ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HUI ALOHA KIHOLO ↗
- Who funds HUNGER AT HOME ↗
- Who funds KAULUA'E FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds KIK KA'EAIKAHELELANI INC ↗
- Who funds PAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS INN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALMADEN VALLEY COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MAILIKUKAHI AINA MOMONA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NA KALAI WA'A ↗
- Who funds STOCKTON HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds O MAKUU KE KAHUA ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Na Maka Onaona ↗
- Who funds Anthem Cares Through Service ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Bright Funds Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Martha E Sanfilippo Foundation Co Shannon & Snyder 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.
- Gordon College — 1% 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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