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Shaman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$368k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Shaman Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$95k73%
FY20246$78k83%
FY20226$50k50%
FY20202$38k0%
FY20194$20k50%
FY20184$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$90kFood & Nutrition$70kReligion$53kHealth$45kHousing & Shelter$25kArts & Culture$18k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shaman Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Community Food Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Reach of Montgomery County: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringmatters Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetComprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGilchrist Hospice Care Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClancy Works Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNeighborhood Companions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIris Music Project: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetArts for the Aging Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInterfaith Works: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Montgomery County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · National Lutheran Inc · Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable · Adventist Healthcare Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

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.

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About Shaman Charitable Foundation

How much does Shaman Charitable Foundation give?
Shaman Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Shaman Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Religion (18%).
Who are Shaman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Chesapeake Church ($43k), Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ($25k), Crossroads Community Food Network Inc ($20k).
Does Shaman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shaman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shaman Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
Where is Shaman Charitable Foundation based?
Shaman Charitable Foundation is based in MO.

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 22 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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