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Siebert Williams Shank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$984k
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$895kInternational$414kHealth$278kArts & Culture$239kPhilanthropy$207kYouth Development$182kCommunity Improvement$178kPublic Benefit$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $539k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$7,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC$100,000
NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD$75,000
HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$50,000
URBAN INITIATIVES INC$50,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$30,000
TUXEDO PARK SCHOOL$25,000
MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$25,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHCIGAN$25,000
HARLEM WEEK INC$25,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$25,000
NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION$25,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$25,000
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY$24,000
MENTAL HEALTH COALITION INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RITTER CENTER INC: $5k → 8%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 7%RITTER CENTER INC: $5k → 8%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $5k → 9%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $1k → 14%COX EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC: $10k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 7%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $50k → 14%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BASBLUE INC: $10k → 21%BASBLUE INC: $10k → 21%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $10k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
55

Total granted

$1.7M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • NN
    NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +47%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $149k · revenue +11%
  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +583%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue -17%
  • MW
    MORGAN'S WONDERLAND INCLUSION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
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
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
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
8
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Amsterdam News Educational Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Development CentersDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,450

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.

04the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/111
Grantees still filing
60/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD — $250,000 · EducationNAN NEWARK TECH WORLDSpelman College — $150,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $149,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Education+23 more — $185,114 · Education+23 moreHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $55,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME — $40,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $75,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $50,000 · Other+78 more — $779,447 · Other+78 moreGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $300,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL POVE…+1 more — $6,000 · Social ScienceUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $27,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN CO…THE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLA…MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMASTERS T…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR …United Way of Greater Houston — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…Mental Health Coalition Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMental He…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLas Trampas School Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesRITTER CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOX EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $9,750 · Human ServicesPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · HealthNFX — $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,500 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $11,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · HealthLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthUniversity Health Foundation — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $2,500 · HealthMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureKREWE OF PYROS FOUNDATION Inc — $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$794,114Other$1,034,447Social Science$306,000Philanthropy$232,000Human Services$189,750Health$170,000Arts & Culture$169,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNAN NEWARK TECH WORLD — $250,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSpelman College — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $149,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNFX — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM WEEK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuxedo Park School — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Palm Beach Police Fund Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMental Health Coalition Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBASBLUE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGlenwood Academy Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREES NEW YORK INC — $16,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROHIS LIBERATION STATION INC — $13,764 over 1y, 14% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Dte Energy FoundationPinkerton FoundationFord PhilanthropyGs Donor Advised Phil…Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Altman FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…Comerica Charitable F…The San Francisco Fou…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation

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 Siebert Williams Shank 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Nan Newark Tech World — 19% of income from government
  • Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines