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Shockey 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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$570kEducation$543kHuman Services$340kHealth$290kMembership Benefit$40kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$33kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $10k → 6%SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $25k → 4%THE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGE: $40k → 7%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $200k → 8%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $21k → 8%WARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $155k → 16%VIRGINIA FOUNDATON FOR IND COLLEGE: $11k → 22%GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $35k → 5%SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGE: $20k → 7%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 8%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $12k → 8%WARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 22%GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $24k → 5%THE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGE: $20k → 7%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 8%MOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY: $40k → 16%GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $18k → 5%THE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGE: $10k → 7%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 8%VALLEY HEALTH: $30k → 16%GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $18k → 5%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 8%VALLEY HEALTH: $30k → 16%GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $10k → 5%THE SCONSET TRUST: $25k → 6%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 8%OUR HEALTH: $25k → 16%ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 5%OUR HEALTH: $25k → 16%ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 5%OUR HEALTH: $25k → 16%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $75k → 22%OUR HEALTH: $25k → 16%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $75k → 22%OUR HEALTH: $20k → 16%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $75k → 22%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $25k → 22%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 18 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+10%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $245k · revenue +36%
  • OH
    OUR HEALTH INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $120k · revenue +52%
  • GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $104k · revenue +339%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -27%
  • 'T
    'SCONSET TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue ×19
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Russell Sage College

To cultivate, inspire, and transform our students in a nurturing, yet challenging, educational environment to become the managers and leaders organizations need right now.

Education
8
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
9
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
10
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
11
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
12
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health System; the most unlike its peers is The National Sporting Library and Museum. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $450,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGE: $90,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE AT ORCHARD RIDGEWARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherWARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY: $40,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Other+8 more: $65,750 · Other+8 moreROANOKE COLLEGE: $250,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGESHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $245,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $33,442 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INCTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $3,750 · EducationTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE LAUREL CE…OUR HEALTH INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $104,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · Arts & CultureVALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $60,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $15,000 · Health'SCONSET TRUST INC: $25,000 · Environment
Other$895,750Education$557,192Human Services$250,000Community Improvement$120,000Arts & Culture$115,000Health$75,000Environment$25,000

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 budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $250,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $245,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HEALTH INC: $120,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $104,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY: $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $33,442 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Capitol Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% 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 THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OUR HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Shockey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shockey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Shockey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shockey 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.

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 28 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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