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Siebert Williams Shank Foundation at a glance

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Siebert Williams Shank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$820k
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$895kInternational$414kHealth$278kArts & Culture$239kPhilanthropy$207kYouth Development$182kCommunity Improvement$178kPublic Benefit$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION$100,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$100,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
TUXEDO PARK SCHOOL$30,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$25,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$25,000
ROHI'S LIBERATION STATION$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$25,000
HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC$25,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$25,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$25,000
NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE$20,000
SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC$20,000
APOLLO THEATER$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $10k → 9%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%RITTER CENTER INC: $5k → 8%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 7%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $50k → 14%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BASBLUE INC: $10k → 21%BASBLUE INC: $10k → 21%BASBLUE INC: $5k → 21%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $10k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $3k → 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

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 58 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
88

Total granted

$2.3M
$950k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+5%

Still filing today

74%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NN
    NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +47%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $149k · revenue +11%
  • TP
    Tuxedo Park School
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +52%
  • UI
    URBAN INITIATIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +583%
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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
2
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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3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
9
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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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
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
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

142 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. 142 of the 196 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/142
Grantees still filing
67/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION INCHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $80,000 · OtherHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INCTuxedo Park School: $55,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $50,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+104 more: $1,023,047 · Other+104 moreNAN NEWARK TECH WORLD: $250,000 · EducationNAN NEWARK TECH WORLDSpelman College: $250,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $149,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYROHIS LIBERATION STATION INC: $38,764 · Education+30 more: $264,650 · Education+30 moreCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNI…UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…United Way of Greater Houston: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR …THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLA…MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMASTERS T…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN CO…Mental Health Coalition Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMental He…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $36,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $300,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL PO…SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $11,000 · Social ScienceMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,500 · Arts & CulturePARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $75,000 · HealthNFX: $35,000 · HealthUniversity Health Foundation: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $17,500 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,000 · HealthCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $4,000 · HealthBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesLas Trampas School Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOX EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRITTER CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $9,750 · Human Services
Other$1,483,047Education$952,414Philanthropy$313,000Social Science$311,000Arts & Culture$251,500Health$207,500Human Services$197,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $250,000 over 3y, 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: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTuxedo Park School: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 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 budgetROHIS LIBERATION STATION INC: $38,764 over 2y, 14% of budgetNFX: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM WEEK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREES NEW YORK INC: $26,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT 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 budgetBASBLUE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWest Palm Beach Police Fund Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity Health Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Coalition Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlenwood Academy Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation: $15,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 196 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home