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Shanken Family Foundation at a glance

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Shanken Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$426k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.5MReligion$493kArts & Culture$465kEducation$275kRecreation & Sports$187kPhilanthropy$105kHuman Services$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
$17,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$147,500
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$87,000
ELS FOR AUTISM$60,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
THE ALLEN - STEVENSON SCHOOL$20,000
KEEPERS OF THE QUAICH$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$17,500
Individual grant recipient$13,638
AFMO$10,000
THE BRIDGE GOLF FOUNDATION$10,000
AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
SPENCE SCHOOL$5,000
SEAVER AUTISM CENTER MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION$300
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM: $3k → 23%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $500 → 6%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $15k → 11%AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 26 repeat orgs$936k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
57

Total granted

$3.4M
$893k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+27%

Still filing today

69%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • EF
    ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +109%
  • CC
    CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $273k · revenue +36%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • SG
    Sammy Gelband Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
2
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
3
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
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
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.

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6
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
12
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 87 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,241,715 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATIONCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $272,600 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCI…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC+9 more: $177,000 · Health+9 moreCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $452,500 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $100,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,000 · OtherDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTEMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $51,000 · OtherKEEPERS OF THE QUAICH: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PRACTICE FACILITY: $50,000 · OtherRNDC RELIEF FUND HURRICANE HARVEY: $50,000 · OtherASCO: $50,000 · Other+45 more: $433,938 · Other+45 moreFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $374,118 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINC…THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH F…NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Miami: $125,000 · EducationUniversit…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 · EducationICAHN SCH…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…THE SPENCE SCHOOL: $29,000 · EducationTHE SPENC…INTERNATIONAL CORONARY CONGRESS INC: $25,000 · EducationINTERNATI…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGEORGETOW…+3 more: $25,000 · Education+3 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $107,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyCAMP LAURELWOOD INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsAUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGENERAL TOMMY FRANKS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human Services
Health$1,791,315Other$1,312,438Arts & Culture$489,618Education$369,000Philanthropy$280,000Recreation & Sports$65,000Human Services$54,500

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 budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,241,715 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $374,118 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $272,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $107,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $85,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCAMP LAURELWOOD INC: $65,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSammy Gelband Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetAUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $26,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLUECHECK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShark Shootout Charities Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARY WADE HOME INCORPORATED: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON SCHOOL PARENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT VA TECH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG TRANSPLANT PROJECT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL TOMMY FRANKS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $300 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Shanken Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shanken Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Mary Wade Home Incorporated: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 87 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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