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The Shinemaker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MAnimals$484kInternational$333kEducation$175kPhilanthropy$160kEnvironment$150kCrime & Legal$79kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERY MOTHER COUNTS$75,000
THE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION$50,000
ROAD RECOVERY FOUNDATION$32,685
WILD TOMORROW FUND$30,910
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION$30,000
EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP$30,000
GLOBAL FOREST GENERATION$20,000
BACK TO EARTH NATURE CONNECTION INC$20,000
NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$20,000
BELIEVE RANCH AND RESCUE$15,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW$6,750
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $3k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%HONORING OUR VETERANS: $1k → 5%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
MT
NY
OR
WY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 24 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
31

Total granted

$2.5M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+60%

Still filing today

79%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • EVERY MOTHER COUNTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $532k · revenue +48%
  • RR
    Road Recovery Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +67%
  • WT
    WILD TOMORROW FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $151k · revenue +465%

Funded once

  • PT
    Pathway to Paris Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -93%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +135%
  • N
    NCADD
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc

The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…

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3
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Wildearth Guardians

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

Unclassified
8
Space for Giants Usa Inc

To help protect Africas remaining natural ecosystems and the large wild animals they contain, while bringing major social and economic value to local communities and national governments.

Animals
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
11
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Believe Ranch and Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAddiction Recovery ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%15%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%66%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,709

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $532,178 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTSEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC — $430,041 · HealthEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INCRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $202,509 · HealthRoad Recovery Foundation IncTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONVETPAW — $250,000 · OtherVETPAWGLOBAL FOREST GENERATION — $67,500 · OtherGLOBAL FOREST GENERA…INSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT COROPOATION — $55,050 · OtherINSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDA…Back to Earth Nature Connection — $20,000 · Other+19 more — $89,184 · Other+19 moreVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION — $246,161 · InternationalVALENTINO ACHAK D…WILD TOMORROW FUND — $150,533 · InternationalWILD TOMORROW FUN…International Rescue Committee INC — $18,465 · International+4 more — $7,171 · InternationalNorthern Light School — $92,500 · EducationNorthern …THE MALALA FUND — $75,000 · EducationTHE MALAL…The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc — $40,680 · EducationThe Found…+2 more — $14,044 · Education+2 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $77,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $5,307 · PhilanthropyPathway to Paris Inc — $30,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Forest Generation — $20,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $11,000 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentUtah Dine Bikeyah — $9,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $5,550 · EnvironmentREDWOOD FOREST FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $2,581 · EnvironmentMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $52,880 · AnimalsBelieve Ranch and Rescue — $17,000 · AnimalsGOATS OF ANARCHY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 · Animals+2 more — $2,500 · Animals
Health$1,264,728Other$481,734International$422,330Education$222,224Philanthropy$147,307Environment$93,131Animals$82,380

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $532,178 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC — $430,041 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION — $246,161 over 7y, 18% of budgetRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $202,509 over 8y, 11% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND — $150,533 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNorthern Light School — $92,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $77,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT COROPOATION — $55,050 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $52,880 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc — $40,680 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPathway to Paris Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $18,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve Ranch and Rescue — $17,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,074 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS — $9,154 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah — $9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $7,059 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE WRITERS — $6,985 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetDROP IN THE BUCKET — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $5,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOATS OF ANARCHY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREDWOOD FOREST FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace — $3,916 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $2,596 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $2,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHonoring Our Veterans — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $267 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Paypal Charitable Giv…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …
Marin Community FoundationCA11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Shinemaker Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Shinemaker Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Shinemaker 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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