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McShane 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.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations McShane Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$52k29%
FY202422$236k18%
FY202323$190k22%
FY202218$195k44%
FY202121$293k29%
FY202015$250k13%
FY201916$242k25%
FY201813$220k8%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$985kYouth Development$505kPublic Benefit$146kHuman Services$88kHealth$43kEnvironment$37kHousing & Shelter$31kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Reading in Motion$560,20579%
A Better Chicago$505,00081%
American Transparency$135,00081%
De la Salle Collegiate$97,5056n/a
University of Detroit Mercy$43,77120%
Assistance League of Southeastern Michigan$37,50034%
Leelanau Conservancy$32,00080%
Blood Cancer United Inc$25,05010%
Beds Plus Inc$17,50050%
Denver Jewish Day School$16,04020%
Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of McShane Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Reading in Motion$560,20579%
A Better Chicago$505,00081%
American Transparency$135,00081%
De la Salle Collegiate$97,5056n/a
University of Detroit Mercy$43,77120%
Assistance League of Southeastern Michigan$37,50034%
Leelanau Conservancy$32,00080%
Blood Cancer United Inc$25,05010%
Beds Plus Inc$17,50050%
Denver Jewish Day School$16,04020%
Covenant House$10,59390%
Emerald City Services$10,0003n/a
Senior Services Associates Inc$10,00030%
Imerman Angels$10,00040%
Better Government Association Inc$10,00010%
The Optima Foundation Dba Education Freedom Foundation$5,70020%
St Joseph High School$5,0001n/a
Glen Lake Association Inc$5,00050%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$4,50020%
Groundwork$4,50031%
Montini Educational Foundation$4,0008n/a
Metropolitan Family Services$3,05030%
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$3,00030%
Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Monroe Michigan Inc$2,5005n/a
Special Recreation Association of Central Lake County Foundation$2,50016%
Grayslake Park Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Lake County Crisis Center$2,08020%
Gofundmeorg$2,00010%
Prager University Foundation$2,00020%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00020%
St Matthews House Inc$2,00010%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$1,31720%
Riddick's Ride Foundation$1,00011%
The Safe Place Foundation$55010%
The Salvation Army$5001n/a
University of Michigan$40010%
Caring House Incorporated$2181n/a
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($288k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McShane Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReading in Motion: $560,205 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetA Better Chicago: $505,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Transparency: $135,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Detroit Mercy: $43,771 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Southeastern Michigan: $37,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLeelanau Conservancy: $32,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $25,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeds Plus Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDenver Jewish Day School: $16,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House: $10,593 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Services Associates Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetImerman Angels: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBetter Government Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Optima Foundation Dba Education Freedom Foundation: $5,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlen Lake Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGroundwork: $4,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $3,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Recreation Association of Central Lake County Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLake County Crisis Center: $2,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGofundmeorg: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $1,317 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiddick's Ride Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Safe Place Foundation: $550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to McShane Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McShane Family 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.

About McShane Family Foundation

How much does McShane Family Foundation give?
McShane Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $52,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does McShane Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Youth Development (27%), Public Benefit (8%).
Who are McShane Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Reading in Motion ($560k), A Better Chicago ($505k), American Transparency ($135k).
Does McShane Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McShane Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as McShane Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is McShane Family Foundation based?
McShane Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 49 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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