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The Shores Foundation

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.

$923k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$3.0MSocial Science$425kPublic Benefit$333kEducation$305kCrime & Legal$100kCivil Rights$75kReligion$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $333k
  • $250k+1 grant · $575k
$183,104
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CITY$575,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$183,104
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$150,000
MIT$15,000
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARBOR HOUSE: $3k → 10%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
NC
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 7 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
20

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

  • The Rand Corporation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $425k · revenue +16%
  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $349k · revenue +233%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $135k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $333k · revenue +49%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +14%
  • VI
    VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -72%

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
Boston Architectural College

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

2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
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
5
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
9
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
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Visions for Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Seva Mandir Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%40%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,739

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

20 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. 20 of the 29 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

City Report Inc — $1,462,000 · Arts & CultureCity Report IncTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $349,104 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $333,334 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $127,500 · Arts & CultureLACMA(LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $600,000 · OtherLACMA(LOS ANGELES COUNT…Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…CALARTS — $75,000 · OtherCALARTSWITS — $50,000 · OtherWITS+8 more — $107,500 · Other+8 moreThe Rand Corporation — $425,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand C…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $135,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $50,000 · EducationVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalInjustice Watch NFP — $75,000 · Civil RightsBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,696,938Other$932,500Public Benefit$425,000Education$235,000Crime & Legal$100,000Civil Rights$75,000Community Improvement$50,000

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 budgetCity Report Inc — $1,462,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $425,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $349,104 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $333,334 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInjustice Watch NFP — $75,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Shores 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Shores Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shores 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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