· Private foundation
William J Shaw Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of William J Shaw Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year William J Shaw Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $170k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DVS LEGAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| ALL ABOUT YOU ADOPTIONS | $50,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| BULLIS SCHOOL INC | $7,500 |
| CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD | $7,000 |
| POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $359k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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 William J Shaw Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DLDVS LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +51% · 59% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON4× · 2017–2021 · $340k · revenue +40%
- AAALL ABOUT U ADOPTIONS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- SHSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $104k · revenue +100%
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $35k
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +38%
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.
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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How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds DVS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOUT U ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CANASTA INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds JUST TRYAN IT INC ↗
- Who funds New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND A WOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Bridges from School to Work Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William J Shaw Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William J Shaw Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc: 17% of income from government
- Raymond a Wood Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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