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Shulkin Family Foundation at a glance

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Shulkin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$103kPublic Benefit$60kAnimals$28kHuman Services$25kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$8kCommunity Improvement$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INDIAN FOREST ENVIRONMENTAL FUND$1,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION$1,000
ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS$1,000
WOLCOTT SCHOOL$1,000
NUZZLES & CO$1,000
CHICAGO CHARITY EVENTS$515
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ENCIRCLE: $25k → 8%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
UT
CO
DE
DC
TX
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 9 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$103k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +87%
  • LF
    Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEAD COUNT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +206%
  • EF
    Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • ON
    OKODWELA NFP
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +41%
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
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
2
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
3
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
4
Tatta Bio

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.

Science & Tech
5
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
California Life Sciences Association

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.

Community Improvement
7
Natural History Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
8
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
10
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
11
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
12
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP: $63,572 · OtherST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · OtherLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+22 more: $22,666 · Other+22 moreHEAD COUNT INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Tu…Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc: $5,250 · EducationLycee Francais…COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,373 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVER…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $17,150 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CON…VETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsVETERINARY I…Greyhounds Only Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsGreyhounds O…PASADENA HUMANE: $1,000 · AnimalsNuzzles & Co: $1,000 · Animals+2 more: $824 · AnimalsEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesEncircle F…PROSPER CHICAGO INC: $8,000 · Food & NutritionOKODWELA NFP: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$101,238Civil Rights$62,000Education$33,623Animals$27,974Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $17,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPER CHICAGO INC: $8,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetLycee Francais de Chicago Inc: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreyhounds Only Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,373 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINK AGENDA INC: $1,936 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLCOTT SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $524 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $300 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Kovler Family Foundat…Imc Chicago Charitabl…AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY14.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shulkin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shulkin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Shulkin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shulkin Family 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 42 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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