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Shah Charitable 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.7MHealth$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$174kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$47kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$518
Median grant
5
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$50,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$22,500
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$770
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$670
MARCH OF DIMES$518
CHRISTINA NOBLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$500
FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC$273
FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS$264
CITY OF HOPE$250
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $614 → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%CRANBERRY SUNSET FARM: $3k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
CO
VA
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 12 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
49

Total granted

$1.9M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TN
    The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +21%
  • TV
    THE VINCENT CLUB INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M
  • CO
    CITY OF CHELSEA
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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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3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
6
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yuvaan Tiwari Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr14%2%35–55yr14%34%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,304

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC — $1,382,352 · OtherSTRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INCMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $1,300,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALCITY OF CHELSEA — $1,300,000 · OtherCITY OF CHELSEA+29 more — $260,606 · Other+29 moreCornell University — $1,000,000 · EducationCornell Universityi2 LEARNING FOUNDATION INC — $425,000 · Educationi2 LEARNING FOUNDATION INCEDNAVIGATOR INC — $250,000 · EducationEDNAVIGATOR INCPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE+6 more — $64,350 · EducationDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED C…+4 more — $63,025 · Philanthropy+4 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $350,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $100,614 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $22,500 · HealthTHE VINCENT CLUB INC — $15,000 · HealthYUVAAN TIWARI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $10,000 · Health+9 more — $5,322 · HealthMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,242,958Education$1,839,350Philanthropy$1,063,025Arts & Culture$415,000Human Services$170,614Health$62,822Youth Development$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC — $1,382,352 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgeti2 LEARNING FOUNDATION INC — $425,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC — $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $100,614 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEACHER COLLABORATIVE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAGLY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VINCENT CLUB INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC — $12,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAchilles International Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYUVAAN TIWARI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIASPORA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $4,197 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC — $2,909 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $1,673 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION — $505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC — $273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS — $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Red Sox Foundatio…Mass General Brigham …Nellie Mae Education …Liberty Mutual Founda…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…Fidelity FoundationGardiner Howland Shaw…
Boston Foundation IncMA32.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Shah Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Shah Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shah Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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