How much does The Shulansky Foundation Inc give?

The Shulansky Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Shulansky Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Education (23%), Health (15%).

Who are The Shulansky Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School ($36k), Duncaster Foundation Inc ($17k), Hartford Hospital ($13k).

Does The Shulansky Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Shulansky Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Shulansky Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation.

Where is The Shulansky Foundation Inc based?

The Shulansky Foundation Inc is based in CT.

The Shulansky Foundation Inc

The Shulansky Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Shulansky 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.

$40k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$97kEducation$66kHealth$41kArts & Culture$30kReligion$29kFood & Nutrition$9kYouth Development$4kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$32k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION	$7,500
THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL	$4,500
HARTFORD HOSPITAL	$3,000
DUNCASTER FOUNDATION INC	$2,800
JEWISH COMM FDN OF GTR HARTFORD	$2,500
CT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CTR FDN INC	$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER	$2,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE	$1,500
HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC	$1,500
FOODSHARE INC	$1,500
CT PUBLIC TELEVISION & RADIO	$1,000
MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING	$1,000
HARTFORD FDN FOR PUBLIC GIV INC	$1,000
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF S NEW ENG	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Shulansky Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Shulansky Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$252k · 30 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$252k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

Still filing today

63%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

TL
THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +17%
HH
Hartford Hospital
9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +112%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +81%

Funded once

CC
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +164%
TE
THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF BETH EL TEMPLE OF WEST HARTFORD INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +181%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +37%

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.

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

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health

The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; the most unlike its peers is Northside Center for Child Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/37

Grantees still filing

27/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$161,800Education$65,850Arts & Culture$22,000Health$17,950Philanthropy$11,500Human Services$2,050Crime & Legal$2,000

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

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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwin · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home