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The Shoemaker Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| GIRARD COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| GIRARD COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES | $5,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES INC | $5,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| NEWTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| FOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Shoemaker Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +242%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +9%
- WIWONDERMORE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR WILDERNESS SAFETY INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
- HFHabitat for Humanityone grant, 2022 · $3k
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +127%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
Our mission is to bring together all available resources for the benefit of the hungry on Long Island, and provide to the best of our ability for the humanitarian needs of our community. We provide food when and where its needed, sponsor…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Open table's mission is to address hunger in our local community by providing healthy food in a welcoming environment that respects the dignity and diversity of those served. we achieve our mission by offering a wide variety of healthy and…
The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
The mission of rachel's table of western massachusetts (rtwm) is to alleviate hunger and reduce the waste of food resources in wm. rtwm takes a holistic and collaborative approach toward food security by supporting an intergenerational…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRARD COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WONDERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds Care & Share of East Lyme Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA THEATER OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds EAST LYME PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Shoemaker Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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