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The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FATHER FLANANGANS BOYS HOME$7,500
MERCY SHIPS$7,500
CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH$7,500
OPERATION SMILE$7,500
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$7,500
COVENANT HOUSE GREATER WASHINGTON$7,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$7,500
YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH$7,500
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 (FY21–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH: $8k → 20%COVENANT HOUSE GREATER WASHINGTON: $8k → 14%Boys Town: $3k → 12%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
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
OK
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 9 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$151k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-5%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Mercy Ships International
    6× · 2018–2023 · $29k · revenue +114%
  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +26%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UU
    UNICEF USA
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +19%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $125 · revenue -5%
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
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
2
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
6
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Holt International Children's Services Inc

Holt international is a christian organization guided by compassion and the highest ethical standards. we find and support permanent, loving families for children who are orphaned, abandoned, or at serious risk of family separation;…

Human Services
11
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
12
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mercy Ships International: $28,850 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $28,500 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INCFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $16,500 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $14,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc+2 more: $85 · InternationalMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $22,450 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSSMILE TRAIN INC: $18,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCFATHER FLANANGANS BOYS HOME: $7,500 · OtherFATHER FLANANGANS BOYS HOMEIndividual grant recipient: $7,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNICEF USA: $3,000 · OtherCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $15,500 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOY…COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE W…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan'…YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,500 · HealthLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $125 · Housing & Shelter
International$88,435Other$57,970Human Services$26,000Health$10,500Housing & Shelter$125

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

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 budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,500 over 2y, 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward Baker Shaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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