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Shuchman Philanthropies Inc at a glance

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Shuchman Philanthropies Inc

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.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$800kCivil Rights$340kSocial Science$160kPublic Benefit$160kPhilanthropy$136kEducation$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$90kReligion$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH$75,000
REASON FOUNDATION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & EXPRESSION$25,000
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$10,000
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 (FY18–22, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LET GROW INC: $190k → 17%LET GROW INC: $140k → 17%LET GROW INC: $100k → 17%LET GROW INC: $55k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • LG
    LET GROW INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $485k · revenue +164%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +17%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH
    4× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • JJ
    JOHN JAY SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies; the most unlike its peers is The Harvard Independent 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

23 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. 23 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LET GROW INC: $485,000 · Human ServicesLET GROW INC+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesHARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOLFIRE: $90,000 · OtherFIREPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $73,016 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…JOHN JAY SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherJOHN JAY SOCIETY INCTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $25,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FO…OPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherOPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL…+5 more: $19,000 · OtherSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $300,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMER…INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $190,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR …MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INST…CATO INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTETHE REASON FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE REASON …Horace Mann School: $56,000 · EducationHorace Mann…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN …REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationREAL CLEAR …New Civil Liberties Alliance: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Harvard Independent Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,800 · Arts & CultureSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $17,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$500,000Other$457,016Health$300,000Public Benefit$260,000Education$211,000Arts & Culture$137,800Philanthropy$135,500

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 budgetLET GROW INC: $485,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $190,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHorace Mann School: $56,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harvard Independent Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $1,800 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.

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 Harjen Charitable…Donors Trust IncThe Achelis & Bodman …Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Harjen Charitable FoundationNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harjen Charitable Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Shuchman Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shuchman Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    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

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    How do I get to Shuchman Philanthropies Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Shuchman Philanthropies Inc 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 31 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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