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Shayne 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Shayne Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Shayne Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $627k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k18 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | $155,550 |
| The Gay and Lesbian Fund of Vermont | $141,650 |
| University School of Nashville | $47,400 |
| Vanderbilt University | $31,750 |
| Vermont Works for Women | $30,000 |
| The Schoolhouse | $27,625 |
| World Education | $25,000 |
| The Temple-Congregation Ohabai Shalom | $18,000 |
| Pro Publica | $16,000 |
| New Israel Fund | $15,000 |
| The Vermont Women's Fund | $13,960 |
| Nashville Public Television | $13,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $12,000 |
| The New School | $11,000 |
| The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of Shayne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2018, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LFLGBTQ FUND OF VERMONT INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +10% · 89% of their budget
- TSThe Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $422k · revenue +39%
- WEWORLD EDUCATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- APAmerican Padres Foundationone grant, 2017 · $9k
- LFLYMPHOMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nashville Opportunities Industralization Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 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. 47 of the 61 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ FUND OF VERMONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRALIZATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT 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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation
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 Shayne 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.
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