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Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund 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%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving16$123k6%
FY202417$104k0%
FY202318$120k0%
FY202218$125k0%
FY202117$98k12%
FY202021$97kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$138kReligion$102kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$84kPhilanthropy$40kRecreation & Sports$35kHealth$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$58,0006n/a
Holocaust Center For Humanity$56,00061%
College Success Foundation$52,50060%
Camp Solomon Schechter$35,00050%
Temple Beth Am$27,0006n/a
Temple de Hirsch Sinai$23,0006n/a
Temple B Nai Torah$17,2005n/a
Jewish Family Service$13,70040%
Seattle University$12,00040%
Limmud Seattle$9,70057%
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All grantees of Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$58,0006n/a
Holocaust Center For Humanity$56,00061%
College Success Foundation$52,50060%
Camp Solomon Schechter$35,00050%
Temple Beth Am$27,0006n/a
Temple de Hirsch Sinai$23,0006n/a
Temple B Nai Torah$17,2005n/a
Jewish Family Service$13,70040%
Seattle University$12,00040%
Limmud Seattle$9,70057%
Lakeside School$3,00010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($360k), not named here.

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.

Jewish Federation of Greater SeattleWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Seattle Foundation · Samis Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund

How much does Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund give?
Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund reported 16 grants totaling $122,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (15%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Washington ($58k), Holocaust Center For Humanity ($56k), College Success Foundation ($53k).
Does Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Seattle Foundation, Samis Foundation.
Where is Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund based?
Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Fund is based in OH.

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 24 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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