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Shen Catalyst Foundation Inc at a glance

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Shen Catalyst Foundation Inc

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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$587kHealth$125kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUREBOUND$32,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$25,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$20,000
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL$6,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%ELDERHELP: $375 → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$701k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$701k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-3%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PR
    PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $436k · revenue +50%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +78%
  • C
    CUREBOUND
    5× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -70%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
4
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
5
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
6
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
11
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
12
University of San Diego

The university of san diego is a contemporary catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts and anchored along an international border, advancing academic excellence to create a more inclusive, sustainable and hopeful world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Immunotherapy 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

24 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. 24 of the 34 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)
22/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $435,628 · EducationPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOLUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $102,725 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationCUREBOUND: $96,950 · HealthCUREBOUND+2 more: $2,200 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $23,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,750 · PhilanthropySEACREST FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $16,600 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNITED FUTBOL ACADEMY: $1,000 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1,000 · Other+11 more: $4,613 · OtherELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $7,375 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 · InternationalSAHASRA DEEPIKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $365 · International
Education$559,853Health$99,150Philanthropy$34,750Other$28,213Human Services$12,375Youth Development$2,500International$1,365

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 budgetPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $435,628 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $102,725 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCUREBOUND: $96,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $7,375 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES UNITED FUTBOL ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAHASRA DEEPIKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $365 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 34 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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