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The Shipley Educational Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$203k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$75k
Largest
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 FY20222023.

Arts & Culture$77kEducation$77kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$12kCivil Rights$10kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$7,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC$75,000
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$12,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$7,500
SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND$7,500
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC$5,000
UNITED AMERICAN PATRIOTS INC$5,000
THOMAS MORE SOCIETY$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC$4,739
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TURNING POINT USA INC: $8k → 11%EASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75k → 8%WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $8k → 11%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $13k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%THOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $5k → 14%UNITED AMERICAN PATRIOTS INC: $5k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%EASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2k → 8%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%EASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 → 8%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

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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
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.

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Furman University

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.

Education
2
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.

3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

7
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
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

10
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
11
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
12
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eastham Historical Society. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $77,300 · OtherEASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETYTURNING POINT USA INC — $7,500 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INC+1 more — $1,000 · OtherBall State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationBall State University Foundation IncHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,250 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INCPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUnited American Patriots Inc — $5,000 · EducationUnited American Patriots IncJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $12,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WAT…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $4,739 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVI…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $7,500 · HealthHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$85,800Education$80,750Public Benefit$22,239Health$7,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetEASTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $77,300 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $4,739 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Shipley Educational 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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