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Shippy 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
86
Grants FY2024
82
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$87,086
Organizations funded a year
57 to 83
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$30M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Shippy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving85$2.0M16%
FY202382$2.0M15%
FY202283$2.0M33%
FY202173$1.8M21%
FY202078$2.9M38%
FY201957$1.6M19%
FY201860$1.7M30%
FY201757$1.5Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.1MYouth Development$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$701kHealth$590kCommunity Improvement$485kPublic Benefit$450kHuman Services$348kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Shippy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York City Urban Debate League Inc$750,000812%
The Urban Assembly Inc$658,03684%
Student Leadership Network Inc$560,09581%
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network$510,00082%
Boston Collegiate Charter School Foundation Inc$410,00083%
Boston Debate League Incorporated$360,00072%
City Harvest Inc$335,00020%
The Oliver Scholars Program Inc$325,00073%
Saint Ann's School$325,00080%
The Epiphany School Inc$320,00071%
Legal Outreach Inc$305,00073%
The Urban Dove Inc$280,00082%
Mott Haven Academy Charter School$275,00060%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$275,00080%
The Writing Revolution Inc$275,00082%
Peace First Inc$274,00084%
Teach for America Inc$250,00050%
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$245,00063%
Food Bank for New York City$234,50060%
The Chicago Debate Commission$225,00055%
Communities in Schools of Chicago$205,00061%
The Bottom Line Inc$200,00070%
The Art of Problem Solving Initiative Inc$200,00041%
Row New York Inc$195,00071%
The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc$183,37731%
Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School$175,00049%
Summer Search$160,00060%
The Teak Fellowship Inc$150,00031%
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc$150,00032%
The Chicago Scholars Foundation$150,00031%
Ali Forney Center Inc$150,00030%
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan$150,00030%
Chicago Women's Health Center$144,50034%
Youth Guidance$135,00030%
Breakthrough New York Inc$125,00032%
Youthbuild Boston Inc$125,00032%
Nuya Inc$110,00064%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$110,00031%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$105,00031%
Bronx Community Charter School$105,00030%
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation$105,00031%
Street Lab Inc$105,00056%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$100,00020%
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation$100,00020%
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp$100,00020%
Michigan Voices$100,00012%
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc$100,00021%
The Eagle Academy Foundation Inc$100,00021%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$100,00010%
Opening Act Inc$95,00033%
Codman Academy Foundation Inc$90,00032%
West End House Inc$85,00031%
Praize Productions Inc Nfp$80,000410%
Onegoal$80,00020%
Bank Street College of Education$75,00030%
Imagination Theater$75,000322%
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc$75,00031%
Ladies of Virtue$75,00032%
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc$75,00031%
Health Research Inc$65,00010%
Kids in Need Distributors Inc$65,00056%
Rocking the Boat Inc$65,00031%
Howard Brown Health Center$54,00030%
Concord Academy$52,00080%
Bard College$50,00010%
Summits Education$50,00011%
Scholar Athletes Inc$50,00011%
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology$50,00010%
Npower Inc$50,00010%
Edvestors Inc$50,00011%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$50,00010%
Behind the Book Inc$50,00023%
Project Rise$50,0002n/a
Preparatory Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Uaspire Inc$50,00020%
United Policyholders$50,00081%
Hale Education Inc$50,00020%
Give Black Alliance$45,00022%
State Democracy Project$41,00010%
City Squash Inc$40,00022%
Neighborhood Connections Inc$40,00042%
LINK Unlimited Scholars$40,00012%
Breaktime United Inc$40,00010%
Southern Smoke Foundation$35,00011%
Nourishing Hope$35,00040%
The Family Center Inc$26,50041%
The Regeneration Project$26,00081%
Trustees of Tufts College$25,00010%
Joyj Initiative$25,00013%
New Georgia Project Inc$25,00010%
Teach Plus Inc$25,00010%
Brooke School Foundation Inc$25,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
Center for Artistry and Scholarship Inc$25,00015%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$25,00010%
The Hyde Square Task Force Inc$25,00011%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$25,00010%
Wellness in the Schools Inc$25,00012%
Feminist Womens Health Center Inc$25,00011%
Spark Reproductive Justice Now$25,00011%
The Education Trust Inc$25,00010%
Helping Our Women Inc$24,00061%
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc$23,00062%
New York Abortion Access Fund$21,00031%
Y2y Network Inc$20,00011%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$20,00010%
Soup Kitchen in Provincetowninc$20,00052%
Outer Cape Health Services Inc$20,00030%
Pen American Center Inc$20,00040%
Marin Shakespeare Company$17,50080%
Arlington Boys & Girls Club Inc$16,00080%
Riley's Way Foundation Inc$15,00040%
Attention Inc$15,00020%
Jubilee Jumpstart$15,00021%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$15,00030%
Jane's Due Process Inc$15,00030%
Black Ensemble Theater Corporation$14,00040%
Peace Action Education Fund$14,00070%
Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc$13,00080%
Summer of Sass Inc$12,00021%
Minds Matter of Bay Area Inc$11,00031%
Brac USA Inc$10,00010%
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$10,0001n/a
Heart to Heart International Inc$10,00010%
Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc$10,00022%
Provincetown Commons Inc$10,00011%
Rebuilding Together Inc$10,00020%
Water Missions International$10,00010%
Action Against Hunger - USA$10,00010%
Food Link Inc$9,00080%
New Yorkers for Children Inc$9,00030%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$8,00010%
Deep Springs Corporation$8,00030%
Alliance for Quality Education Inc$8,00021%
The Lily House Inc$8,00040%
Catrock Ventures Inc$8,00011%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$8,00040%
The Commonwealth School Inc$7,00070%
New York Focus Inc$7,00030%
Brave Space Alliance$7,00030%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)$6,00020%
Tides for Reproductive Freedom Inc$5,00010%
AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod Inc$5,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$5,00010%
Pine Street Inn Inc$5,00010%
Refugepoint Inc$5,00010%
The New Shul$4,5002n/a
Cambridge Friends School Inc$4,0003n/a
Women's World Banking Inc$3,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shippy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York City Urban Debate League Inc: $750,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetThe Urban Assembly Inc: $658,036 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetStudent Leadership Network Inc: $560,095 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network: $510,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetBoston Collegiate Charter School Foundation Inc: $410,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetBoston Debate League Incorporated: $360,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $335,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Oliver Scholars Program Inc: $325,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSaint Ann's School: $325,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $320,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetLegal Outreach Inc: $305,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetThe Urban Dove Inc: $280,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMott Haven Academy Charter School: $275,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $275,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Writing Revolution Inc: $275,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetPeace First Inc: $274,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: $245,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $234,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chicago Debate Commission: $225,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Chicago: $205,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bottom Line Inc: $200,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Art of Problem Solving Initiative Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRow New York Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc: $183,377 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School: $175,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetSummer Search: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Teak Fellowship Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGirls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe Chicago Scholars Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAli Forney Center Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Home Lifecare Manhattan: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Women's Health Center: $144,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetYouth Guidance: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough New York Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYouthbuild Boston Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNuya Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetBusinesses United in Investing Lending & Development: $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBronx Community Charter School: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMikva Challenge Grant Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetStreet Lab Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetSponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCypress Hills Local Development Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Voices: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBoston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 146.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA42.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation 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.

Compare Shippy Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Shippy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shippy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Shippy Foundation

How much does Shippy Foundation give?
Shippy Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $2,041,386 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shippy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Youth Development (13%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
Who are Shippy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York City Urban Debate League Inc ($750k), The Urban Assembly Inc ($658k), Student Leadership Network Inc ($560k).
Does Shippy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shippy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shippy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
Where is Shippy Foundation based?
Shippy Foundation is based in NY.

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 188 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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