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The Shafran Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shafran 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$374kEducation$111kArts & Culture$88kReligion$63kHuman Services$61kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$21kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET SUN VALLEY$10,000
ST THOMAS CHURCH$10,000
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$5,000
SPUR FOUNDATION$5,000
WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION$2,500
LACER FOUNDATION$2,000
VALLEY CLUB EMPLOYEE SCOLARSHIP FUN$1,000
TAFT SCHOOL$1,000
THE CHURCH OF BETHESDA-BY-THE-SEA$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $1k → 14%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $10k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $5k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $5k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $3k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $3k → 7%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$717k · 15 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$717k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-10%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $341k · revenue +100%
  • SV
    Sun Valley Community School Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +56%
  • WR
    Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +404%

Funded once

  • AP
    ARGYROS PERFOMRING ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • UF
    UJA FEDERAL OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc

The sun valley ski education foundation, inc. is dedicated to providing winter sports programs for the youth of the wood river valley, to include all ability and interest levels, regardless of each participant's economic level. the primary…

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2
United States Ski Association

United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.

Recreation & Sports
3
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
4
Vail Valley Foundation

Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.

Community Improvement
5
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
6
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
7
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

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8
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
9
University Camps

Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…

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10
Sundance Institute

Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Vail Mountain School

We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.

Education
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Word of Honor Fund. 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

22 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. 22 of the 42 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United States Ski Team Foundation: $341,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team FoundationWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $50,175 · Recreation & SportsWood River Community Young Men's Christian Associatio…+3 more: $13,500 · Recreation & SportsSPUR FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherSPUR FOUNDATIONST THOMAS CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherST THOMAS CHURCHST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHSV CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $27,904 · OtherSV CENTER FOR THE ARTSARGYROS PERFOMRING ARTS CENTER: $25,000 · OtherARGYROS PERFOMRING ARTS CENTERUJA FEDERAL OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · OtherUJA FEDERAL OF NEW YORKIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSVSEF: $12,500 · OtherSUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART: $11,940 · OtherSV SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $27,850 · Other+14 moreSun Valley Community School Inc: $85,500 · EducationSun Valley Com…UCLA FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIO…THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $7,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOO…SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $4,800 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWord of Honor Fund: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $16,075 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $5,000 · Animals
Recreation & Sports$404,675Other$290,194Education$109,300Human Services$26,250Arts & Culture$18,575Health$6,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $341,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $85,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $50,175 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $16,075 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWord of Honor Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $4,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $500 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.

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.

Boswell Family Founda…Spur Community Founda…The Nalen FoundationThe Otis Booth Founda…The Springcreek Found…Mott Family Foundatio…Idaho Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Boswell Family FoundationID20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boswell Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Nalen Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Mott Family Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Shafran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shafran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    3report 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
    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 42 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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