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The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw 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.

$281k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$7.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$281k17%
FY20246$311k0%
FY20236$303k0%
FY20227$332k0%
FY20218$358k13%
FY20208$426k0%
FY201910$461k50%
FY20188$400k0%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.7MEducation$608kAnimals$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Choc Foundation$1,089,30090%
Burn Institute$356,00093%
Mercy Foundation Inc$343,63345%
Erikson Institute$325,00080%
Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc$281,30991%
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation$200,00053%
Connecticut Children's Medical Center$158,27040%
University of Illinois Foundation$90,00030%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$89,17320%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$10,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChoc Foundation: $1,089,300 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBurn Institute: $356,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetMercy Foundation Inc: $343,633 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetErikson Institute: $325,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc: $281,309 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPediatric Cancer Research Foundation: $200,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetConnecticut Children's Medical Center: $158,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $89,173 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation

How much does The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation give?
The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $281,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (81%), Education (18%), Animals (0%).
Who are The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Choc Foundation ($1.1M), Burn Institute ($356k), Mercy Foundation Inc ($344k).
Does The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation 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 Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation based?
The Walden W and Jean Young Shaw Foundation is based in IL.

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 16 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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