California · Nonprofit
THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION
THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,236 to it, the largest being MARA W BREECH FOUNDATION ($26,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $378k
What The Emily Shane Foundation does
Mission
The Emily Shane Foundation was organized to spread the message of kindness and good deeds. In addition the foundation pursues opportunities to help mainstreamed children in public schools achieve their educational goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Emily Shane Foundation provides educational mentors to middle school children through its program, successful educational achievements sea. This program provided mentors to 85 children during the spring and fall semesters of 2023.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $141k to $435k (+209%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michel Shane
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $18k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 45% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 51% · 2022 59% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION?
- THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,236 to it, the largest being MARA W BREECH FOUNDATION ($26,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $112,236 in grants to THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION?
- MARA W BREECH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing