· Private foundation
Shulkin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $57,562 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $1,073 |
| USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS | $1,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| INDIAN FOREST ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $1,000 |
| WOLCOTT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NUZZLES & CO | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO CHARITY EVENTS | $515 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +87%
- LFLycee Francais de Chicago Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- HCHEAD COUNT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +206%
- EFEncircle Family and Youth Resource Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
- VIVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Tatta Bio is a scientific non-profit dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence models and tools to accelerate biology research. Our mission is to revolutionize the way scientists interact with genomic information.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKODWELA NFP ↗
- Who funds Greyhounds Only Inc ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINK AGENDA INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds Nuzzles & Co ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds WOLCOTT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds DARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Shulkin Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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