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Shanklin 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.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$853kHealth$250kHuman Services$125kEducation$84kFood & Nutrition$81kAnimals$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$20k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHANKLIN MUSIC HALL FOUNDATION INC$126,606
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$22,500
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO$20,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$20,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$15,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$15,000
SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS$12,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
HANOVER THEATER$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 11%SMOKEY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $13k → 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $13k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $23k → 7%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $13k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $18k → 7%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $8k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $13k → 7%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $8k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+101%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +62%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • CS
    CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +142% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • HT
    HANOVER THEATER - DON PHIPPS ORGAN FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AF
    ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +101%
  • MO
    Meals on Wheels New Hampshire NH Coalition of Aging Services
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -77%
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
3
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

We advance health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships, providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
8
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
9
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas

The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…

Health
10
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Shanklin Music Hall Foundation Inc. 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 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHANKLIN MUSIC HALL FOUNDATION INC: $793,435 · PhilanthropySHANKLIN MUSIC HALL FOUNDATION INCNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $75,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Cathol…CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED SAILORS S…Smoky Mountain Service Dogs: $50,000 · Human ServicesSmoky Mountain Servi…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE C…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer …HANOVER THEATER: $50,000 · OtherHANOVER THEATER - DON PHIPPS ORGAN FUND: $10,000 · OtherWILTON PUBLIC AND GREGG FREE LIBRARY: $9,998 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherWILTON PUBLIC AND FREE LIBRARY: $4,500 · OtherENDICOTT COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationMeals on Wheels New Hampshire NH Coalition of Aging Services: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$793,435Human Services$265,000Health$250,000Other$84,498Education$65,000Food & Nutrition$5,500

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 budgetSHANKLIN MUSIC HALL FOUNDATION INC: $793,435 over 6y, 100% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC: $75,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels New Hampshire NH Coalition of Aging Services: $5,500 over 1y, 14% 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.

  • Who funds SHANKLIN MUSIC HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Smoky Mountain Service Dogs ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels New Hampshire NH Coalition of Aging Services ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 1% 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 · 0–40%
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 16 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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