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Stephanie& Fred Shuman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$515k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MHealth$1.0MHousing & Shelter$260kRecreation & Sports$150kHuman Services$140kEducation$89kFood & Nutrition$65kYouth Development$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$130,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$50,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$50,000
NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER$35,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$35,000
PUBLICOLOR$25,025
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$25,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$20,005
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$15,000
NATIONAL THEATRE OF AMERICA$10,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$5,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$5,000
PARRISH ART MUSEUM$5,000
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $20k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $20k → 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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 20 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$4.8M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $718k · revenue +159%
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +99%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $208k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -6%

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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
11
Ie New York College

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Education
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Community Support ServicesSocial Justice AdvocacyK-12 Schools and Educationa…Santa Barbara Community Fou…
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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr20%36%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr20%6%20–35yr13%71%35–55yr14%22%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
3,149/30,298

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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY — $1,100,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORYMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $950,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $120,000 · Other+16 more — $185,000 · Other+16 moreTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $718,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOL…MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $501,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WESTINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $459,375 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHYNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $207,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC+4 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $260,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $57,500 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC — $50,025 · EducationEXODUS SCHOOL — $13,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $6,000 · Education+2 more — $2,350 · EducationASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $125,005 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $50,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,355,000Arts & Culture$1,921,375Housing & Shelter$260,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Education$138,875Human Services$129,505Food & Nutrition$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $718,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $501,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $459,375 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $260,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $207,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $125,005 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC — $50,025 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL — $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELLO FUTURE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1 FOR THE PLANET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC — $350 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stephanie& Fred Shuman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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