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Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS WORLD COMMITTEE FOR CONSULTATION | $100,000 |
| FAITH & PLAY STORIES | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $54,700 |
| SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY | $45,000 |
| FRIENDS UNITED MEETING | $39,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| ARCH STREET MEETING HOUSE | $30,000 |
| SANDY SPRINGS FREINDS MEETING | $18,000 |
| PUBLIC FRIENDS | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 6% of Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd’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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- PHPendle Hill3× · 2020–2024 · $273k · revenue +30%
- TQTHEE QUAKER PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +316% · 84% of their budget
- SOSCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY3× · 2022–2025 · $174k · revenue +13% · 77% of their budget
Funded once
- WMWellesley Monthly Meeting of Friendsone grant, 2022 · $87k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $75k
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 the friends council on education is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors. the council's work nurtures the quaker life of schools, strengthens the network of…
In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…
Our yearly meeting helps local quaker communities find meaning and purpose through interconnection and engagement in a larger network of friends. shared endeavors are good ways to engage with others, and there are many ways of working…
Friends rehabilitation program, inc. is a quaker-related nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide housing and social services for low and moderate income households. in addition, the corporation is a developer and manager of…
Friends place on capitol hill is a welcoming space that offers hospitality centered in peace, civic education, and justice-based advocacy for learners and leaders of all ages.
The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…
Friends center corporation seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of god, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit. as an expression of the beliefs and testimonies of…
Fair food is dedicated to bringing locally grown food to the marketplace and to promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the greater philadelphia region
FASE seeks to provide quality residential, social and health services to the elderly, emphasizing independence, group initiatives and quaker values of integrity, equality, peace, community and simplicity.
Friend inc community services is a multi-services social agency that supports the well-being of those in need and is committed to strengthening the lives of families and individuals living th northeastern berks county.
Provide participatory residential experience based on the religious society of friends principles, in communal household, at moderate cost; meeting space; silent meetings and communal meals; and public education and outreach
Provide Quaker based education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quaker Voluntary Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heeding Gods Call. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 Pendle Hill ↗
- Who funds THEE QUAKER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds Quaker Voluntary Service Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends Fiduciary Corporation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER 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: Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Snave Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Friends Foundation for the Aging · Obadiah Browns Benevolent Fund · D'Olier Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd 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.
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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