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The Shanley Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shanley Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
14
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MPublic Benefit$308kArts & Culture$160kHealth$97kYouth Development$22kEducation$21kAnimals$16kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k28 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$2,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTING$83,344
THE CATO INSTITUTE$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
CHARITY WATER$3,500
NATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING$3,500
TEAM RUBICON$3,500
FEEDING AMERICA$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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CHARITY WATER: $4k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $5k → 9%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $4k → 9%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

ME
VT
ID
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$657k · 21 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$657k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & 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

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $154k · revenue +12%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $154k · revenue +93%
  • CG
    COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • NW
    NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +25%
  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
3
World Vets

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…

Animals
4
Willing Hands Enterprises Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
6
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
7
Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
10
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
11
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
12
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $154,078 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONCATO INSTITUTE: $154,077 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTECENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTING: $154,077 · OtherCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTING+24 more: $91,067 · Other+24 morePediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc: $90,000 · HealthPediatric Hydr…BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $8,501 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $6,902 · Human ServicesCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $7,000 · EducationNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $7,000 · EducationPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $5,335 · AnimalsNEW LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE A NJ NONPROF: $5,335 · AnimalsTEAM RUBICON INC: $6,903 · Public Safety & Disaster
Public Benefit$308,155Other$245,144Health$90,000Human Services$15,403Education$14,000Animals$10,670Public Safety & Disaster$6,903

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 budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $154,078 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $154,077 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $8,501 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $6,903 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $6,903 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $6,902 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $5,502 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION AND HOPE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $5,335 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE A NJ NONPROF: $5,335 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMP Concerts: $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.

  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
  • 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 PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE A NJ NONPROF ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Shanley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shanley Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $355k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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