· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERISITY OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Molly & Ed Shill Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molly & Ed Shill Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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