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Shearman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$296k
Granted FY2026still arriving
49
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$610kPhilanthropy$367kReligion$209kArts & Culture$208kHuman Services$187kHealth$158kRecreation & Sports$61kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2026 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k40 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST NICHOLAS CENTER$65,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SWLA$27,713
IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM$25,000
ST LOUIS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
Individual grant recipient$19,500
WHEATON COLLEGE$10,000
MCNEESE UNIV FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
POLO FOR LIFE INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
WATERS EDGE$5,000
ICCS SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AR MITCHELL MUSEUM$5,000
REINS OF HOPE$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAITH IN ACTION: $100 → 19%FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 7%CARC: $5k → 17%CARC: $5k → 17%CARC: $5k → 17%AUTISM SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $15k → 17%AUTISM SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $5k → 17%WHISTLE STOP: $3k → 17%WHISTLE STOP: $3k → 17%AUTISM SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $3k → 17%WHISTLE STOP: $3k → 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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CO
NM
LA
MS
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.
$1.6M · 55 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2026, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
69

Total granted

$1.6M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

27%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • IC
    IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $175k · revenue +34%
  • WHEATON COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2026 · $30k · revenue +14%
  • WP
    WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • AS
    AUSTIM SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $112k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • GC
    GREAT COMMISSION FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
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
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Arts Council of Central Louisiana

Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes

Arts & Culture
3
Louisiana Association for the Blind Inc

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.

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4
Louisiana Nursing Home Association Inc

Providing leadership in long term care policy and advocacy on behalf of louisianas nursing facilities and assisted living communities.

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5
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
6
Louisiana Disabled Persons Housing Corp

Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults

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7
Louisiana Charter Boat Association Inc

To protect and promote the development and preservation of the fishing guide industry in LA and industries that support the fishing guide industry.

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8
Tarc Inc

Tarc, inc. is a nonprofit corporation which provides opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to realize their full potential, and to become self-directed and contributing citizens.

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9
American Civil Liberties Union

To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.

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10
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

—
11
The Assist Agency Inc

The agency provides services to low income, handicapped and homeless individuals in the form of emergency food and shelther, food distribution, low income housing assistance, energy assistance and other related social and emergency…

Employment
12
Central Louisiana Aids Support Service

To provide community awareness and assistance for aids victims.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 141 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCNEESE UNIV FOUNDATION: $207,500 · OtherMCNEESE UNIV FOUNDATIONST NICHOLAS CENTER: $191,000 · OtherST NICHOLAS CENTERTRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE: $125,000 · OtherTRINIDAD STATE COLLEGEAUSTIM SERVICES: $112,000 · OtherAUSTIM SERVICESMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY: $103,650 · OtherMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITYLCMH FOUNDATION: $102,600 · OtherLCMH FOUNDATIONEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $101,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL+113 more: $674,461 · Other+113 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $313,352 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUND…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureIMPERIAL …NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $40,000 · Human ServicesAUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA: $22,500 · Human ServicesCARC INC: $15,100 · Human ServicesWhistle Stop Supervised Child Visitation and Exchange Center Inc: $7,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,100 · Human ServicesWHEATON COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationWheaton College: $5,000 · EducationFISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $2,000 · EducationPolo For Life Inc: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCOPS AND JOCKS INC: $700 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,617,211Philanthropy$323,352Arts & Culture$188,000Human Services$86,200Education$40,500Health$36,000Recreation & Sports$20,700

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $313,352 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC: $175,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPolo For Life Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA: $22,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHRISTUS ST PATRICK FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCARC INC: $15,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhistle Stop Supervised Child Visitation and Exchange Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWheaton College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLake Charles Little Theatre: $3,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetA House Unbuilt % Victoria Bradford Styrbicki: $3,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAKE CHARLES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOBO HOTEL INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Trinity Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUPELO CHILDREN'S MANSION 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.

  • 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 AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
  • Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS ST PATRICK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mn Davidson FoundationJeanann Gray Dunlap F…CSE Community Foundat…The Sooner FoundationThe Willinphila Found…Second Harvest Food B…Shell USA Company Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation of Southwest LouisianaLA38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 141 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home