How much does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation give?

Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $17,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Human Services (13%), Education (11%).

Who are Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foster Care Advocacy Center ($8k), American Friends of Natal Inc ($6k), Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc ($5k).

Does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.

Where is Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation based?

Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation

Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$24kHuman Services$14kEducation$13kYouth Development$12kArts & Culture$11kReligion$11kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$231k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FOSTER CARE ADVOCACY CENTER	$2,500
BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT	$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL	$2,000
BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS	$2,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL	$1,692
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE	$1,500
ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS	$1,500
TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER	$1,500
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION	$1,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$1,000
ROSIE'S PLACE	$1,000
ARMAND HYATT SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$25
ST VINCENT DE PAUL	$25
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$18

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$67k · 17 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$67k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+24%

Still filing today

59%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FC
FOSTER CARE ADVOCACY CENTER
4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +18%
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +41%
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
3× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +3%

Funded once

MV
Merr Valley Jewish Federation
one grant, 2022 · $5k
BS
BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -16%
AF
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -10%

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.

04Its field

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Lawrence Public Library Inc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 115 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

35/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$69,355Human Services$14,204Health$11,219International$8,528Youth Development$5,210Arts & Culture$2,813Housing & Shelter$1,000

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home