· Private foundation
The Shilling Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL PREACHING FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| GREENWOOD GARDENS | $50,000 |
| PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE | $40,000 |
| WSHU PUBLIC RADIO | $30,000 |
| CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL | $22,000 |
| KENT PLACE SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| EPHIPHANY SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SEWANEE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $10,000 |
| TRIFFEN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BERKELY DIVINITY SCHOOL AT YALE | $10,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GREENWOOD GARDENS6× · 2020–2025 · $299k · revenue +47%- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +52%
- PMPaper Mill Playhouse6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +94%
Funded once
FOODCORPS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -47%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TPTHE POOR CLARES OF NJone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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.
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…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 77 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 Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT APIS M INC ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shilling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shilling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae: 3% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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