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Shamrock Foods Foundation at a glance

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Shamrock Foods 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.

$490k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$395kEducation$378kHealth$313kHuman Services$210kArts & Culture$190kPublic Benefit$80kReligion$70kInternational$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN$100,000
LOST BOYS CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT$50,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$50,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$50,000
K2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE$25,000
VALLEY OF THE SUN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA VALLEY OF THE SUN Y$25,000
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$15,000
DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE$15,000
NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN$15,000
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM$12,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC$10,000
FEEDING MATTERS INC$10,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC ATHLETES IN ACTION$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $10k → 11%CHILDHELP INC: $10k → 11%CHILDHELP INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $10k → 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

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
DC
OK
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+18%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHousing & 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $395k · revenue +11%
  • KA
    K2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +88%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IC
    IRISH CULTUTAL CENTER AND MCCLELLAND LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $130k
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +52%
  • IC
    IRISH CULTURAL CENTER & LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
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.

—
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
6
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
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
10
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is International Organization for the Family. 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

33 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. 33 of the 41 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
18/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $395,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF …IRISH CULTUTAL CENTER AND MCCLELLAND LIBRARY: $130,000 · OtherIRISH CULTUTAL CENTER AND MCCLELLA…VALLEY OF THE SUN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA VALLEY OF THE SUN Y: $70,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN YOUNG MEN'S CHRI…THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $35,000 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE ST…IRISH CULTURAL CENTER & LIBRARY: $25,000 · OtherEXCEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LLC: $22,450 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $20,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $50,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN ACTION INCPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherPHOENIX ART MUSEUMCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherUnified Arizona Veterans Inc: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $101,035 · Other+11 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATI…NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC: $40,000 · EducationNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED …MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSIT…University of Arizona Foundation: $17,500 · Education+1 more: $4,500 · EducationTHE LOST BOYS CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOST B…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $30,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCD…CHILDHELP INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP …Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $10,000 · Human ServicesValley of …K2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentK2 ADVENT…+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEEDING MATTERS INC: $40,000 · HealthA NEW LEAF: $30,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,122 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $52,500 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$395,000Other$533,485Education$362,000Human Services$160,000Youth Development$155,000Health$120,122Philanthropy$52,500

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 budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $395,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetK2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOST BOYS CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $52,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnified Arizona Veterans Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,122 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE FAMILY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilent Warrior Foundation: $6,035 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPINAL 40 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST VALLEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…Thunderbirds CharitiesFiesta Events IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Fiesta Events Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shamrock Foods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shamrock Foods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shamrock Foods Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shamrock Foods 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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