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Shenk Family 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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
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.

Religion$154kHealth$138kEducation$84kPhilanthropy$51kInternational$22kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$17kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$20,000
YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$7,260
GLOBAL CHE ENTERPRISES$6,000
WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND$6,000
PETER HEISEY MISSION - CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE$5,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$5,000
OAKLAWN LANGUAGE ACADEMY$5,000
THE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$4,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA$3,000
VENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,000
UNTOLD INC$2,000
RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY: $500 → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY: $500 → 9%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $7k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%FAMILY HAVEN INC: $200 → 17%FAMILY HAVEN INC: $200 → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY: $2k → 9%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $6k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY: $1k → 9%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $4k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $3k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $2k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $1k → 10%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

WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$487k · 37 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$487k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+67%

Still filing today

65%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GH
    GENERATION HOPE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +452%
  • WI
    Womens Impact Fund
    8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +0%
  • UI
    Untold Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +67%
  • BM
    BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • CM
    COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +100%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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

34 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. 34 of the 51 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherNOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONPETER HEISEY MISSION - CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE: $39,000 · OtherPETER HEISEY MISSION - CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSEPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $36,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESVENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35,500 · OtherVENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $27,900 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALSERVICES ALONG THE NILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · OtherSERVICES ALONG THE NILE INTERNATIONAL INCPTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS: $13,000 · OtherOAKLAWN LANGUAGE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Other+21 more: $59,499 · Other+21 moreGlobal CHE Enterprises: $38,500 · ReligionGlobal CHE En…BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $10,000 · ReligionBUILDING HOPE…Witnessing Ministries of Christ: $9,000 · ReligionWitnessing Mi…+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionWomens Impact Fund: $40,000 · Human ServicesWomens Impact…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $12,020 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S C…FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMIS…Nourish Up: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesGENERATION HOPE: $48,775 · EducationGENERATION HO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…THE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationUntold Inc: $17,500 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $1,000 · HealthActive Against ALS: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $775 · HealthSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $9,500 · Food & NutritionVILLAGE PROJECT: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$280,899Religion$58,500Human Services$58,420Education$57,775Health$27,275Food & Nutrition$14,500Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetGENERATION HOPE: $48,775 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWomens Impact Fund: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal CHE Enterprises: $38,500 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUntold Inc: $17,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $12,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Spring Elementary PTA: $8,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE PROJECT: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Up: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUGANDA ORPHANS FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOOTBALL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS IMPACT INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $499 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HAVEN INC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $275 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 GENERATION HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Womens Impact Fund ↗
  • Who funds Global CHE Enterprises ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds Untold Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds Witnessing Ministries of Christ ↗
  • Who funds Providence Spring Elementary PTA ↗
  • Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Up ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UGANDA ORPHANS FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ALS 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.

The Cleveland Foundat…In His Steps Foundati…Gulf Coast Community …Foundation for the Ca…The US Charitable Gif…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Raymond James Charita…
The Cleveland FoundationOH16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–15%
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 51 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