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The Shamrock Foundation

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.

$97k
Granted FY2020
24
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192020.

Religion$109kHuman Services$22kArts & Culture$13kPublic Benefit$10kRecreation & Sports$5kInternational$5kEducation$4kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k21 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY TRINITY NEWMAN CENTER$50,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
CATHEDRAL CULTURAL PROGRAM DIOCESE$10,000
AMERICAN FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$2,000
ST FRANCIS DE ASIS$2,000
ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE$2,000
PROTON PALS FOUNDATION$2,000
WORD ON FIRE$1,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$1,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$1,000
CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR POLITIC$1,000
MAIA$1,000
LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY OF SW$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%ST LUKES HOME: $300 → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
OK

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$148k · 14 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$148k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+48%

Still filing today

43%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesReligionInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • M
    MAIA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue +545%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIV OF AZ ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • BS
    BOY'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Santa Fe Institute

The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…

Science & Tech
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

12
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Proton Pals Foundation. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLY TRINITY NEWMAN CENTER — $100,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY NEWMAN CENTERCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICESIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHEDRAL CULTURAL PROGRAM DIOCESE — $10,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CULTURAL PROGRAM DIOCESE+26 more — $32,365 · Other+26 moreMAIA — $5,000 · InternationalJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $100 · Public BenefitPROTON PALS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Human ServicesSt Lukes in the Desert Inc — $300 · Human ServicesWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $1,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $1,000 · ReligionMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $500 · Arts & CultureTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC — $400 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $250 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC — $1,000 · Environment
Other$172,365International$5,000Public Benefit$3,600Human Services$2,300Religion$2,000Arts & Culture$1,150Environment$1,000

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 budgetMAIA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $100 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.

  • Who funds MAIA
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds PROTON PALS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
  • Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds GOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC
  • Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc
  • Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION

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.

The Shamrock TrustAZ20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shamrock Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 The Shamrock 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Shamrock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Shamrock Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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