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Shockley Foundation at a glance

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Shockley 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$51kEducation$29kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$3kHealth$2kEnvironment$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,399
Median grant
4
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME$5,000
WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER$1,500
RICE LAKE CHILDREN'S CLASSIC$1,399
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ATHLETIC DAY$1,000
BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$1,000
ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION 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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 12%BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA #1025: $2k → 17%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $10k → 19%DEBRAY GOLF & CC: $500 → 12%WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $2k → 10%RICE LAKE CHILDREN'S CLASSIC: $1k → 13%WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 17%KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $20k → 15%BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA #1025: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $7k → 19%WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $2k → 10%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $3k → 15%BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ATHLETIC DAY: $1k → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%AUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $1k → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $2k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $1k → 19%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $300 → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER: $500 → 10%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%ROCK ISLAND MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 8 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$102k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+196%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AC
    AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2022 · $24k · revenue +27%
  • WB
    WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +97%
  • RI
    ROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • AL
    ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +196%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $44,994 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAMEWISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,100 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INCAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $24,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGEROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 · OtherROCK ISLAND-MILA…BROADCAST FOUNDATION OF AMERICA #1025: $3,000 · OtherBROADCAST FOUNDA…KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $2,800 · OtherKIWANIS FOUNDATI…BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 · OtherBROADCASTERS FOU…RICE LAKE CHILDREN'S CLASSIC: $1,399 · OtherRICE LAKE CHILDR…AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ATHLETIC DAY: $1,000 · OtherAUGUSTANA COLLEG…+1 more: $500 · OtherWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$62,094Education$24,000Other$15,199Recreation & Sports$4,000Environment$500

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 budgetNATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $44,994 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,100 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $500 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 NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Shockley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shockley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY20–24
    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 12 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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