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Richard Shaklee Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Richard Shaklee Memorial Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k14 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE TRACK$35,000
CHALLENGE DAY$10,000
SUMMIT BANK FOUNDATION$5,400
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$5,000
JACK DEL RIO FOUNDATION$3,800
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$2,500
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - NORTH CALIFORNIA$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS WALKATHON$1,000
ANIMAL PLACE$1,000
FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
POTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$750
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA$250
TONY LA RUSSA'S ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION$225
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$100
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 9%FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
4
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
7
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
8
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc

American lebanese syrian associated charities, inc. (alsac) was founded in 1957 and exists solely to raise funds and build awareness to sustain and grow the mission of st. jude children's research hospital, inc. to advance cures, and means…

Religion
9
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE TRACK: $35,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKCHALLENGE DAY FUND: $10,000 · EducationCHALLENGE DAY FUNDTHE JACK DEL RIO FOUNDATION: $3,800 · OtherTHE JACK DEL…SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - NORTH CALIFORNIA: $2,500 · OtherSHRINERS HOS…SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS WALKATHON: $1,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN…POTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $750 · OtherPOTRERO HILL…Summit Bank Foundation: $5,400 · PhilanthropyFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 · HealthAnimal Place: $1,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $250 · AnimalsJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $225 · Animals
Education$45,000Other$8,050Philanthropy$5,400Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$3,500Health$2,700Animals$1,475

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGE DAY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSummit Bank Foundation: $5,400 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACK DEL RIO FOUNDATION: $3,800 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Place: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

American Endowment Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Richard Shaklee Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Shaklee Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 16 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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