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The George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse at a glance

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The George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$163k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
$9,066
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$22,289
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$20,676
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$20,597
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$20,318
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE$20,318
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CTR$10,883
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$9,498
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC$9,066
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$6,410
THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION$5,500
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$5,177
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$5,177
WETA$4,924
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK$1,500
CATO INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $6k → 16%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $21k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%CATO INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP: $5k → 17%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%WETA: $5k → 7%THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC: $9k → 8%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CTR: $11k → 9%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $21k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $20k → 8%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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
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 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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
12
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale of Montgomery County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,676 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,597 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,410 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,177 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL…The Trustees of Princeton University: $22,289 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Uni…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,318 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $20,318 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CTR: $10,883 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING C…MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $5,177 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK: $1,500 · OtherNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $9,066 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PHIL…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $5,500 · Arts & CultureColonial Will…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,924 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHI…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,498 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Health$52,860Education$42,607Other$37,878Arts & Culture$19,490Philanthropy$9,498Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $22,289 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,676 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,597 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,498 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $9,066 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,177 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,924 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 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 George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to The George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse?

Find your warmest path to The George F Jr & Myra Shaskan Foundation Inc C/O Susan Luse through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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