· Private foundation
Shaman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS SERVING DC-MD-VA INC | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PREVENTION BLINDNESS SOC METRO WASHINGTO | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL FOR AGING GTR WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| CARINGMATTERS INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| CLANCYWORKS INC | $7,500 |
| GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC | $7,500 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS INC | $5,000 |
| HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ESEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +10%
- CRCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY3× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +17%
- CICARINGMATTERS INC2× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +63%
Funded once
Crossroads Community Food Network Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +8%- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
- POPREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OFone grant, 2024 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere from all walks of life to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses so that there are safe and decent houses in decent communities in which…
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…
Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…
The lutheran village at miller's grant is organized to receive and administer funds for, to establish, maintain, supervise, coordinate, assist and perform planning and other functions for the benefit of, or to carry out the charitable,…
Provide cultural, social, sports, and educational services and serve functionally and/or cognitively impaired adults with a variety of health, social and other related services.
Our mission is to be a leader in providing services for older adults and their families while fostering a strong sense of community where everyone is known by name and every voice is heard and valued.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
To provide in-home services to enable vulnerable people to remain in their own homes.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
Housing initiative partnership, inc. (hip) develops innovative affordable housing, revitalizes neighborhoods and equips people to achieve their housing and financial goals. hip's vision is that every person lives in high-quality affordable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Reach of Montgomery County and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Community Food Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Food Network Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLANCY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR THE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS MUSIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COMPANIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
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.
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
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 Shaman 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.
- Clancy Works Inc — 40% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Iris Music Project — 3% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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.