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Sanjay Shah 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.

$234k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.0MHousing & Shelter$460kEducation$215kHuman Services$84kArts & Culture$72kInternational$34kEmployment$25kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $198k
$26,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP HOUSING CORPORATION$198,000
HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$26,000
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 48% of grant dollars ($942k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 52% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%CITY HOUSE: $500 → 5%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%THE SOPHIA WAY: $500 → 9%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE: $500 → 14%OLIVIA DRUCARES: $500 → 7%NEW MOM INC: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 14%NEW MOM INC: $500 → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 52% of all-years giving ($1.0M)

10 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$996k · 9 grants
United Kingdom$5k · 9 grants
Germany$3k · 4 grants
Colombia$2k · 5 grants
Poland$940 · 2 grants
Spain$593 · 1 grant
Belgium$557 · 1 grant
OC$545 · 1 grant
Brazil$500 · 1 grant
South Africa$500 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Sanjay Shah Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sanjay Shah Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 53% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
105

Total granted

$1.8M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+24%

Still filing today

82%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FH
    Fellowship Housing Corporation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $440k · revenue +38%
  • WR
    WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +96%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +120%
  • DC
    DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +298%
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.

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Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
6
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
7
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
8
New Hope House Northwest D/B/a New Hope Community Food Pantry

New hope house northwest is a volunteer-driven food pantry dedicated to providing emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need. the pantry serves chicago's far northwest side, norridge, and harwood heights residents,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 116 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $993,817 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+91 more: $121,341 · Other+91 moreFellowship Housing Corporation: $440,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing Corpor…+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $128,000 · EducationWILLIAM RAI…COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF …+2 more: $5,500 · EducationINDIASPORA: $45,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesNorthwest Community Music Academy: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $1,000 · HealthINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Employment
Other$1,115,158Housing & Shelter$445,000Education$203,500Human Services$91,000Arts & Culture$51,000Health$26,000Employment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $440,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $128,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINDIASPORA: $45,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest Community Music Academy: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE AGAINST INTOXICATED MOTORISTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman-I-T: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERNON TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIADRUCARES: $500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLEMONS OF LOVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurlington-Hampshire Area Food Pantry: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFueled For School: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $240 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.

  • Who funds Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIASPORA ↗
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Community Music Academy ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE AGAINST INTOXICATED MOTORISTS ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Human-I-T ↗
  • Who funds VERNON TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOREFRONT ↗

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.

Motorola Solutions Fo…AbbVie FoundationThe Dupage Community …Usg Foundation IncPuget Sound Energy Fo…John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Omron Foundation IncGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Northern Illinois Foo…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
Motorola Solutions FoundationIL20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Motorola Solutions Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Omron Foundation Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 116 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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