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The Shinemaker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MAnimals$484kInternational$333kEducation$175kPhilanthropy$160kEnvironment$150kCrime & Legal$79kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERY MOTHER COUNTS$90,000
THE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION$50,000
EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP$50,000
ROAD RECOVERY FOUNDATION$30,000
NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL$25,219
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$25,000
GLOBAL FOREST GENERATION$25,000
BACK TO EARTH NATURE CONNECTION INC$25,000
WILD TOMORROW FUND$25,000
OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST$20,000
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION$20,000
MARINLINK$20,000
BELIEVE RANCH AND RESCUE$12,071
MAGIC THEATRE INC$10,286
EARTH LAW CENTER$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARINLINK: $20k → 8%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
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

VT
WA
MT
NY
OR
WY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 27 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
30

Total granted

$2.9M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+60%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther
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

  • EVERY MOTHER COUNTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $622k · revenue +90%
  • EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $480k · revenue +2%
  • RR
    Road Recovery Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +67%

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
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
3
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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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
Eden Peopleplanet

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

International
6
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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7
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
8
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
9
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
10
Ecological Rights Foundation

The mission of this organization shall be to educate the general public about environmental practices which cause harm to human health, the environment and other natural resources; and to seek redress of these harms through litigation or…

Environment
11
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $622,178 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTSEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $480,041 · HealthEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INCRoad Recovery Foundation Inc: $232,509 · HealthRoad Recovery Foundation IncTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION: $266,161 · InternationalVALENTINO ACHAK …WILD TOMORROW FUND: $175,533 · InternationalWILD TOMORROW FU…International Rescue Committee INC: $18,465 · International+4 more: $7,171 · InternationalVETPAW: $250,000 · OtherVETPAWGLOBAL FOREST GENERATION: $67,500 · OtherGLOBAL FOREST GENER…INSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT COROPOATION: $55,050 · OtherINSIDE CIRCLE FOUND…Back to Earth Nature Connection: $45,000 · OtherBack to Earth Natur…MARIN LINK INC: $20,000 · Other+21 more: $106,970 · Other+21 moreNorthern Light School: $117,719 · EducationNorthern …THE MALALA FUND: $75,000 · EducationTHE MALAL…The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $45,329 · EducationThe Found…JACKSON HOLE WRITERS: $12,098 · Education+1 more: $7,059 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $102,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $10,307 · PhilanthropyGlobal Forest Generation: $45,000 · EnvironmentPathway to Paris Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $30,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $11,000 · 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: $29,071 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsGOATS OF ANARCHY INC: $5,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,500 · Animals
Health$1,484,728International$467,330Other$544,520Education$257,205Philanthropy$172,307Environment$138,131Animals$94,451

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $622,178 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $480,041 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION: $266,161 over 8y, 18% of budgetRoad Recovery Foundation Inc: $232,509 over 9y, 11% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND: $175,533 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNorthern Light School: $117,719 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $102,000 over 9y, 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: $45,329 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBack to Earth Nature Connection: $45,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPathway to Paris Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBelieve Ranch and Rescue: $29,071 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $18,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE WRITERS: $12,098 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC: $10,286 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,074 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetDROP IN THE BUCKET: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $5,550 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 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 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 budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 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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