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The Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundation at a glance

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The Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MReligion$600kAnimals$356kEnvironment$306kArts & Culture$168kEducation$127kHealth$85kPublic Benefit$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–22, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $7k → 17%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $10k → 4%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $10k → 4%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $5k → 4%LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 17%THE YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $4k → 17%THE YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
TN
SC
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 36% of The Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 1% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 5%.

The Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundationlessmore 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 26 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
25

Total granted

$1.6M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+39%

Still filing today

69%
64%

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
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +375%
  • VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • NF
    NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +349%

Funded once

  • Williams Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • GL
    GREATER LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.

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Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
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
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
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.

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7
Boston Architectural College

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

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8
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
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
11
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakewood Aliveinc; the most unlike its peers is Poor Paws Rescue. 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

38 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. 38 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $800,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $200,000 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INCCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $600,000 · OtherCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $100,000 · OtherVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEYNJPAC: $50,000 · Other+30 more: $316,000 · Other+30 moreAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $305,000 · AnimalsAtlantic Sal…+3 more: $15,500 · AnimalsGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $205,000 · EnvironmentGREATER N…NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentNORTH FLO…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN …+2 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentHIRAM COLLEGE: $29,000 · EducationWilliams College: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBLAIR ACADEMY: $8,500 · EducationFishermans Mark: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $8,000 · Human ServicesEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesLAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWNET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$1,180,000Other$1,066,000Animals$320,500Environment$257,500Education$72,500Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $800,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $305,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $205,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIRAM COLLEGE: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWilliams College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pennington School: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWJCT INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLULUS RESCUE: $19,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD ALIVEINC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRENTON ANIMALS ROCK: $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYARTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby's Crew Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetED KEATING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rattlesnake Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWE MAKE AUTISM AT WORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Community West Founda…Princeton Area Commun…Citizens Charitable F…Community Foundation …Three Arches Foundati…The Char and Chuck Fo…Columbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Pfizer Foundation…Fidelity FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Cleveland FoundationOH18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Three Arches Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter V and Judith L Shipley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • North Florida Land Trust Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Hoboken Historical Museum Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc: 5% of income from government
  • We Make Autism at Work Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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