New York · Private foundation
Burt & Stanley Shaffer 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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $410k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $406k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $475k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $475k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $430k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $400k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $415k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $403k | 95% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $330,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Childrens Education Foundation-Vietnam | $230,000 | 8 | 36% |
| Children's Museum of the East End I | $210,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Casa Viva | $200,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Island Harvest Ltd | $195,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Peconic Land Trust Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($760k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation
- How much does Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation give?
- Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $410,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (23%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($330k), Childrens Education Foundation-Vietnam ($230k), Children's Museum of the East End I ($210k).
- Does Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation 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 Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation based?
- Burt & Stanley Shaffer Foundation is based in NY.
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