· Private foundation
Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $85,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TRANSPLANT CENTER | $80,000 |
| COVENANT COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN SPECIAL EDUCATION MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| HEARTBEAT OF MONROE | $40,000 |
| THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER | $40,000 |
| GABBY'S GRIEF CENTER | $35,000 |
| CARE NET OF PUGET SOUND | $30,000 |
| Lutheran Hour Ministries | $30,000 |
| St John Amelith Lutheran School | $30,000 |
| MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA | $25,000 |
| St John the Divine Anglican Church | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHEARTBEAT OF MONROE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +130% · 46% of their budget
- CCCOVENANT COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +27%
- CNCare Net Pregnancy & Family Services of Puget Sound6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- DODIOCESE OF OLYMPIA (FUNDS TO ST JOHN'S SQUAMISH BC)one grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT OF MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Care Net Pregnancy & Family Services of Puget Sound ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GABBY'S LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Island Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cross International Inc ↗
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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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