· Private foundation
Molly & Ed Shill Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOLLYPOP FARM | $200,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SPCC | $20,000 |
| SPCC | $20,000 |
| SPCC | $20,000 |
| FERALS AND KITTENS AND CATS OH MY | $12,000 |
| HOME START HOPE | $10,000 |
| CANANDAIGUA LAKE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNIVERISITY OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| ST PETER'S KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| SPCC | $4,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| PLUTA CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| UNIVERISITY OF ROCHESTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO3× · 2022–2024 · $311k · revenue +81%
ST PETERS KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +42%- WDWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- GCGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $39k
- GAGORDY AND FRIENDS INCone grant, 2023 · $22k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE GRANT CONTRIBUTIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Prevention of cruelty to animals to prevent overbreeding to control cat population
Animal shelter and rescue
The primary purpose of the Lawrence County Humane Society is to relieve pain and suffering among animals to prevent cruelty to animals and to extend humane education to the community
To protect and improve the lives of homeless, free-roaming community cats by assisting both the animals and those who care for them. they achieve this through education, community collaboration, and promoting the benefits of spay/neuter as…
Catnip Cats & Kittens provides housing, vet care and spay/neuter to pets in our care. We housed over 150 dogs and cats in 2020 providing a safe sanctuary and reducing unwanted pets in the community.
Animal welfare for New York City street cats. Provide sanctuary, adoption and fostering. Promote TNR, manage feral cat colonies. Humane education through presentations, videos and our website.
Pet pride of new york has been saving homeless cats and matching them with caring adopters since 1977. we operate a no-kill cat sanctuary and adoption center with an on-site veterinary medical center where we shelter and care for cats and…
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
Provide care,neuter/spaying and adoption
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
We are an animal welfare charity. we provide free spay and neuter for outdoor cats in Kent County Michigan
cat rescue: adoption, rehoming, fostering, trap-neuter-release, education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home Start Hope and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Cats Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds ST PETERS KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds FERALS AND KITTENS AND CATS OH MY ↗
- Who funds HOME START HOPE ↗
- Who funds Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Cats Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Molly & Ed Shill Cares 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.
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.