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Robert and Virginia Shiller Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Virginia Shiller 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.

$741k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MHealth$707kInternational$344kPhilanthropy$253kCivil Rights$249kEducation$227kFood & Nutrition$80kPublic Benefit$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $425k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PBS FOUNDATION$425,000
PROPUBLICA$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION AMERICA$35,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$35,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$30,000
GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE$30,000
CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$30,000
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT$25,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$20,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$20,000
NHPBS$10,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$5,000
SENTIENT MEDIA$5,000
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG$5,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 55 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
25

Total granted

$2.4M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+8%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute
    6× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +35%
  • UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $143k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • WV
    WORLD VISION CHILD SPONSORSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +32%
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.

1
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
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
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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4
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Psychotherapy Action Network. 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

61 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. 61 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
46/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNI…PBS FOUNDATION: $425,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIONPRO PUBLICA INC: $125,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC+3 more: $41,000 · Arts & CultureChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $269,789 · OtherChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Ins…WORLD VISION CHILD SPONSORSHIP: $200,000 · OtherWORLD VISION CHILD SPONSORSHIPYALE UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH: $121,250 · OtherYALE NEW HAVEN HEALTHPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION AMERICA: $58,000 · OtherTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $60,000 · Other+51 more: $404,250 · Other+51 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $235,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $142,500 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthPsychotherapy Action Network: $45,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $40,000 · HealthKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $13,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation: $9,000 · Health+2 more: $1,200 · HealthHAITI REHABILITATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $25,000 · InternationalGlobal Impact: $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $18,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $16,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,000 · InternationalUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $7,000 · InternationalBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $52,500 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $13,300 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,500 · EducationHAMDEN HALL SCHOOL INC: $6,400 · Education+2 more: $250 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,291,000Other$1,248,289Civil Rights$238,000Philanthropy$232,500Health$208,200International$152,500Education$82,950

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 budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $700,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $269,789 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $235,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $142,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $52,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPsychotherapy Action Network: $45,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI REHABILITATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Corps: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $13,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $9,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAMDEN HALL SCHOOL INC: $6,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM DAY ON CAPE COD INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $650 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Psychotherapy Action Network ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAITI REHABILITATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗

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 Pfizer Foundation…Liberty Bank Foundati…Yale UniversityThe Community Foundat…The Koch Ellis FundEthel & Abe Lapides F…Eder Family Foundatio…United Way of Greater…Connecticut Health Fo…Newalliance Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…Chubb Charitable Foun…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY15.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Koch Ellis Fund · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Chubb Charitable 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 Robert and Virginia Shiller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Virginia Shiller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 91 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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