· Private foundation
Sheldrake Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JCC OF THE SOUTH BAY | $10,000 |
| STEP STUDEN EXPEDITION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| OPEN TEMPLE | $7,200 |
| JEWISH COM CENTER OF MANHATTEN BEAC | $6,600 |
| JEWISH LINKS | $5,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| WISHBONE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENI | $218 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC5× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +78%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +125%- JLJEWISH LINKS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +471%
Funded once
- OCOLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +112%
MDRCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +36%- VCVENICE CANALS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
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.
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds VENICE CANALS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds VENICE FLYING CAROUSEL ↗
- Who funds Going To The Sun Rally ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDPIPERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Wishbone Foundation ↗
- Who funds TECHFORCE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheldrake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldrake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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