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The Shin Creek Trust at a glance

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The Shin Creek Trust

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.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$720kArts & Culture$445kHealth$336kYouth Development$282kInternational$178kEnvironment$92kFood & Nutrition$52kRecreation & Sports$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS RADIO FOUNDATION$60,100
BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL$30,000
ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK$25,000
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT$25,000
NY PRESBYTERIAN FUND$25,000
NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$10,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY$10,000
ROSEMARY PENCIL FOUNDATION$10,000
ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL$10,000
GLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS$10,000
CATSKILL ART SOCIETY$6,000
HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE$5,102
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES (SHOFCO)$5,000
COLBY COLLEGE$5,000
POLLYANNA$5,000
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GO CAMPAIGN: $1k → 14%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $1k → 17%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
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 53 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
49

Total granted

$2.0M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

60%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RW
    RADIO WORKSHOP US INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +183%
  • THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +34%
  • CR
    CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    5× · 2017–2021 · $170k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MC
    MCGILL CAREER SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +135%
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MIRZA FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
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
9
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next for Autism Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jackson Hole Public Art. 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

79 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. 79 of the 118 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
55/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PANCREAS CENTER AT COLUMBIA: $150,000 · OtherPANCREAS CENTER AT COLUMBIAMCGILL UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · OtherMCGILL UNIVERSITYNY PRESBYTERIAN FUND: $75,000 · OtherNY PRESBYTERIAN FUNDMCGILL CAREER SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherMCGILL CAREER SERVICESALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · OtherWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $30,515 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $25,000 · Other+67 more: $257,980 · Other+67 moreCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $170,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATI…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $120,200 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $76,500 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $33,334 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…Pollyanna Inc: $21,500 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $26,655 · EducationRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $393,608 · Arts & CultureRADIO WORKSHOP US INCCATSKILL ART SOCIETY INC: $30,140 · Arts & CultureCATSKILL ART SOCIETY I…+5 more: $14,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $240,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERH…+2 more: $350 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $98,200 · International+2 more: $2,100 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC: $40,602 · HealthOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $8,003 · HealthNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $5,000 · Health+9 more: $9,207 · HealthTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $39,675 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$748,495Education$568,189Arts & Culture$438,498Youth Development$240,850International$100,300Health$62,812Human Services$41,675

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $393,608 over 9y, 22% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $240,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $120,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $98,200 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $76,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC: $40,602 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $39,675 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $33,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $30,515 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATSKILL ART SOCIETY INC: $30,140 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPollyanna Inc: $21,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $11,033 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $10,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEARCH: $10,029 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC: $8,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $8,003 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $7,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDigital Divide Data: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOR FARMERS MOVEMENT INC: $5,524 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATTON VETERANS PROJECT INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Public Art: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $3,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC: $2,950 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget24 Foundation Inc: $2,072 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMISTAD MISSION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $1,527 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIASCO THEATER LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 RADIO WORKSHOP US INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LUNCHBOX FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILL ART SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Pollyanna Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds OCEARCH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Digital Divide Data ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNSELING ↗

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 New York Communit…Viking Global Foundat…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Express Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Soros Fund Charitable…The Cowles Charitable…National Philanthropi…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Communal Fund
The New York Community TrustNY17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Soros Fund Charitable Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Shin Creek Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shin Creek Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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