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Shanes Future Days

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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$105kReligion$2kArts & Culture$807Philanthropy$652Education$106Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,755
Median grant
2
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$8,755
CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$7,135
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 (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAX CURE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 9 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -111% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$107k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-111%

Still filing today

78%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +35%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +88%
  • KF
    KISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • RA
    ROBERT AND CAROL WEISMAN CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $807
  • TM
    THE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue -111%
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
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
2
Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Pediatric cancer foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer. these trials are conducted by world renowned doctors at the…

Health
3
Chance for Life

Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.

Health
4
Children's Cancer Family Foundation of Ne Wi Inc

Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.

Health
5
National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc

National pediatric cancer foundation (npcf) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research to eliminate childhood cancer. our focus is to fund research to find less toxic, more targeted therapies by partnering with leading…

Health
6
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
7
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Fund research to power cures that reduce the percentage of children who perish from cancer until that number reaches zero.

—
8
The Children's Cancer Fund

The organization raises, receives and administers funds for the purpose of engaging in and/or funding research and patient services in the area of shildhood cancers and improving the quality of life of children diagnosed with cancer.

Health
9
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation

To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.

Health
10
Scott Carter Foundation

To fund research projects directed toward a cure for childhood cancers

Philanthropy
11
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
12
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation; the most unlike its peers is North South Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $60,858 · OtherChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute+4 more: $6,045 · Other+4 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,461 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $14,205 · HealthKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION+2 more: $752 · HealthSTORM THE HEAVENS: $1,639 · Public BenefitPHILLIES CHARITIES INC: $652 · PhilanthropyNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $106 · EducationTHE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Human Services
Other$66,903Health$40,418Public Benefit$1,639Philanthropy$652Education$106Human Services$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $60,858 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,461 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $14,205 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,826 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM THE HEAVENS: $1,639 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILLIES CHARITIES INC: $652 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OF HOPE: $152 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Shanes Future Days funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shanes Future Days. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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 13 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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