Michigan · Private foundation
Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $895k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 | 29 | $895k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $865k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $795k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $940k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $715k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $664k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas More Law Center | $425,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Trinity Lutheran School | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Heartbeat of Monroe Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 46% |
| Lutheran Special Education Ministries | $240,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Covenant College | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Care Net Pregnancy & Family Services of Puget Sound | $185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Covenant College Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Gabby's Ladder Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Concordia Seminary | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas More Law Center | $425,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Trinity Lutheran School | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Heartbeat of Monroe Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 46% |
| Lutheran Special Education Ministries | $240,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Covenant College | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Care Net Pregnancy & Family Services of Puget Sound | $185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Covenant College Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Gabby's Ladder Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Concordia Seminary | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Island Christian Academy | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Concordia Theological Seminary | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Capital Research Center | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holy Ghost Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Cross International Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutheran Womens Missionary League | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Braille Workers Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ncca | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation
- How much does Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation give?
- Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $894,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Civil Rights (24%), Health (17%).
- Who are Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Thomas More Law Center ($425k), Trinity Lutheran School ($300k), Heartbeat of Monroe Inc ($240k).
- Does Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation based?
- Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation is based in MI.
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