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Shethar Foundation Incorporated at a glance

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Shethar Foundation Incorporated

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$395k
Granted FY2021
41
Grants FY2021
13
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$279kArts & Culture$205kEducation$154kHealth$68kCivil Rights$59kHousing & Shelter$58kRecreation & Sports$48kEnvironment$46kOther$0
02FY2021 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k28 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grace St Paul's Episcopal Church$64,000
Burke Museum$64,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHARD$33,500
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$20,000
International Rescue Committee$16,701
BOSTON PLAN FOR EXCELLENC$15,000
CITY OF BOSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,000
CHALLENGE ALASKA$12,000
CHRIST CHURCH$11,300
DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE$10,000
PINE STREET INN$10,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
ST MARK'S SCHOOL$9,000
HEALTH FREEDOM FOR HUMANITY$8,000
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 (FY19–21, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $8k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $4k → 16%THE 10 ELM FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%THE 10 ELM FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%THE 10 ELM FOUNDATION: $700 → 10%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $500 → 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

AK
VT
NH
WA
WI
NY
MA
WY
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$981k · 53 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2021, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
14

Total granted

$981k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+30%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • CA
    Challenge Alaska
    5× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +54%
  • NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +79%
  • ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARK'S CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BC
    BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • UO
    UNION OF CONCERNED STUDENTS
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
4
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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5
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
8
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Kaycee Senior Housing Inc. 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

41 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. 41 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grace St Paul's Episcopal Church: $141,000 · OtherGrace St Paul's Episcopal ChurchCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHARD: $76,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHARDChallenge Alaska: $38,000 · OtherChallenge AlaskaCITY OF BOSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 · OtherBOSTON PLAN FOR EXCELLENC: $27,000 · OtherBURKE MUSEUM - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $22,500 · OtherDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $26,300 · Other+49 more: $310,323 · Other+49 moreBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $141,000 · Arts & CultureBURKE MUSEUM AS…+2 more: $2,917 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $34,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $22,000 · Civil RightsBRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $3,000 · Civil RightsENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Environment350ORG: $11,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL TRAILS COALITION INC: $8,639 · EnvironmentST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $31,500 · EducationSHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC: $11,000 · EducationColby-Sawyer College: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $800 · EducationPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $12,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,222 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterKAYCEE SENIOR HOUSING INC: $14,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$671,123Arts & Culture$143,917Civil Rights$59,000Environment$54,639Education$47,300Health$46,222Housing & Shelter$35,500

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 budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $141,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $38,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $26,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,701 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKAYCEE SENIOR HOUSING INC: $14,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,350 over 2y, 3.3% of budget350ORG: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL TRAILS COALITION INC: $8,639 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $7,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,222 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,332 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYE FREE READING ROOM: $3,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget10 ELM FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,284 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetBOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS UP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOn Stage Inc: $917 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSean Perkins Foundation Inc: $836 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $617 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Challenge Alaska ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds KAYCEE SENIOR HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT DAY SCHOOL 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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Institution for Savin…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT15× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Shethar Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shethar Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • On Stage Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 76 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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