· Private foundation
Shearman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| LCMH FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FDN | $20,000 |
| ST NICHOLAS CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING | $15,000 |
| MCNEESE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FISHERS ISLAND UNION CHAPEL | $10,000 |
| FISHERS ISLAND PEOPLE'S PROJECT | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| ICCS SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| AR MITCHELL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SOWELA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AUTISM SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- ICIMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +34%
- WPWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
- CSCHRISTUS ST PATRICK FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ASAUSTIM SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $112k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GCGREAT COMMISSION FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2024 · $21k
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.
Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes
Providing leadership in long term care policy and advocacy on behalf of louisianas nursing facilities and assisted living communities.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
Louisiana association for the blind's core mission is to provide stable employment, vocational training, and rehabilitative services, along with employment to individuals who are blind and visually impaired in louisiana.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To Promote Charitable, Educational, Scientic and Cultural Studies for Louisiana Community and Technical College System: to solicit and accept gifts, grants, appropriations, bequests and funds, including property, in order to provide…
Provides course of instruction in christian liberal arts at the undergraduate and graduate level, by persons of all genders taught by regular classroom instruction, correspondence or other means. higher education
To provide community awareness and assistance for aids victims.
Management of affordable rental units for the elderly and handicapped - hud projects
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 127 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds Polo For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS ST PATRICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT 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: Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Mn Davidson Foundation · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · CSE Community Foundation · The Sooner Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Shearman 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.
- Wheaton College — 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.