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The Shane Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOWGLI HOLT ELWELL MEMORIAL FDN'S HOPE TO BE | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PROJECT 79 | $25,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MISS HALL'S SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN | $3,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| LAHEY HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| WBUR | $2,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BHBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +141%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +43%- MHMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NDNOTRE DAME CHILDRENS CLASSone grant, 2017 · $2k
- EMElkhorn Marine Conservancy Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +87%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Hamilton Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 99 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MILL REEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVIAN HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FRENCH LIBRARY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Shane 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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