Virginia · Private foundation
David S Shrager 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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations David S Shrager Foundation 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.
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 | 1 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $92k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $92k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $54k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $56k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $82k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $48k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signature Theatre Inc | $231,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Sitar Arts Center | $180,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Temple Rodef Shalom | $101,708 | 6 | n/a |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Spur Local Inc | $28,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Theatrewashington | $11,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Georgetown University | $5,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgetown Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Potomac Massage Training Institute | $4,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Studio Theatre Inc | $2,720 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($533), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David S Shrager Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Shiloh Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation
How this is measured
About David S Shrager Foundation
- How much does David S Shrager Foundation give?
- David S Shrager Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $66,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does David S Shrager Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Religion (17%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are David S Shrager Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Signature Theatre Inc ($232k), Sitar Arts Center ($180k), Temple Rodef Shalom ($102k).
- Does David S Shrager Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David S Shrager 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 David S Shrager Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Weissberg Foundation.
- Where is David S Shrager Foundation based?
- David S Shrager Foundation is based in VA.
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