How much does The Shaw Family Endowment Fund give?

The Shaw Family Endowment Fund reported 5 grants totaling $2,000,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Shaw Family Endowment Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (30%), International (10%).

Who are The Shaw Family Endowment Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation ($4.0M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($2.5M), Americares Foundation Inc ($2.5M).

Does The Shaw Family Endowment Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Shaw Family Endowment Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Shaw Family Endowment Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel.

Where is The Shaw Family Endowment Fund based?

The Shaw Family Endowment Fund is based in NY.

The Shaw Family Endowment Fund

The Shaw Family Endowment Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Shaw Family Endowment Fund

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.

$2.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$13MInternational$4.2MCrime & Legal$2.8MScience & Tech$2.3MFood & Nutrition$2.0MArts & Culture$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.0MOther$0

02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICARES	$500,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER	$500,000
NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION	$500,000
CITY HARVEST	$250,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$250,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$31M · 41 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$31M

$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+40%

Still filing today

71%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureSocial ScienceInternationalOther

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

AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +50%
AA
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +37%
Feeding America
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +23%

Funded once

N
NAACP
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
QC
QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +64%
CF
COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M

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.

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center; the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Legal Aid. 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

40 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. 40 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

28/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$18,255,000Education$9,230,000International$5,000,000Health$4,825,000Human Services$2,742,000Food & Nutrition$2,500,000Community Improvement$1,500,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Altman Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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