· Private foundation
The Shaver 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG FISH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHO | $2,500 |
| ASSOCATION OF FORMER STUDENTS (A&M) | $2,500 |
| FRASSATI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,047 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOC | $1,750 |
| SAINT LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT | $1,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $1,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $1,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS | $1,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +99%
- BFBIG FISH FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +50%
- TATHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL5× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- 1C12TH CANone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BCBUILD Command Teamone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- PFPATTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -22%
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.
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.
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.
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Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 100 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD Command Team ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PATTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds VFW NATIONAL HOME ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shaver Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shaver Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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