Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Bally Shannon Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2023
- 21
- Grants FY2023
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $1,861,584
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 9
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Bally Shannon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 21 | $3.3M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $2.8M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $500k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $765k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $553k | 87% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $256k | 93% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $208k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adopt a Student Foundation | $1,100,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Washington School for Girls | $422,915 | 7 | 5% |
| Aim High Charitable Trust | $200,000 | 4 | 50% |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Miguel School Inc | $42,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Washington College | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids in Need Distributors Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Little Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bally Shannon Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Bally Shannon Foundation Inc
- How much does Bally Shannon Foundation Inc give?
- Bally Shannon Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $3,267,320 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bally Shannon Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (25%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Bally Shannon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Adopt a Student Foundation ($1.1M), Washington School for Girls ($423k), Aim High Charitable Trust ($200k).
- Does Bally Shannon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bally Shannon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bally Shannon Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Bally Shannon Foundation Inc based?
- Bally Shannon Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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