· Private foundation
The Shanley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k28 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CATO INSTITUTE | $83,344 |
| CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTING | $83,344 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $83,344 |
| PEDIATRIC HYDROCEPHALUS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEW ST ANDREWS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FACING ADDICTION | $3,501 |
| BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS | $3,501 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $3,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING | $3,500 |
| CHARITY WATER | $3,500 |
| THE UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC | $3,002 |
| COTTONWOOD GULCH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $2,502 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $154k · revenue +12%- CICATO INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $154k · revenue +93%
- CGCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- NWNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +25%
- OROUR RESCUEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Willing hands delivers fresh food to more than 80 social service organizations throughout the upper valley of new hampshire and vermont that serve as food access points to our community. fresh food is recovered from local farms, grocery…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Life Animal Rescue a Nj Nonprof. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS ↗
- Who funds NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE A NJ NONPROF ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds AMP Concerts ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Shanley Family 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.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Bradford Public Library — 1% of income from government
- Norman Williams Public Library 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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