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The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$10k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$53k29%
FY20225$34k20%
FY20219$27k22%
FY20208$21k13%
FY20196$21k33%
FY20185$82080%
FY20173$16kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$57kHealth$52kInternational$46kFood & Nutrition$17kYouth Development$11kHousing & Shelter$125

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mercy Ships International$28,85060%
Operation Smile Inc$28,50050%
Smile Train Inc$18,00040%
Food for the Poor Inc$16,50030%
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch$15,50020%
Save The Children Federation Inc$14,50040%
Covenant House Washington DC$7,50010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$3,00010%
Los Angeles Mission Inc$1251n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$5520%
Feed the Children Inc$3010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Ships International: $28,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Washington DC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $55 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation

How much does The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation give?
The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (28%), International (25%).
Who are The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Mercy Ships International ($29k), Operation Smile Inc ($29k), Smile Train Inc ($18k).
Does The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation based?
The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation is based in CA.

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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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