Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Elizabeth Shiras Tw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,983
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Elizabeth Shiras Tw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 5 | $72k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $69k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $73k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $83k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $65k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $59k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storehouse for Teachers D/B/A the Education Partnership | $31,483 | 2 | 0% |
| The Crossroads Foundation | $27,838 | 3 | 1% |
| Mommys Imagination Station Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 10% |
| The Kiski School | $22,884 | 1 | 0% |
| Waypoint Youth and Community Center Inc | $21,046 | 2 | 3% |
| Casa San Jose | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Urban Impact Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Connecting Champions | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Schools That Can | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elizabeth Shiras Tw supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Eqt Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · McElhattan Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
How this is measured
About Elizabeth Shiras Tw
- How much does Elizabeth Shiras Tw give?
- Elizabeth Shiras Tw reported 5 grants totaling $72,192 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth Shiras Tw fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Youth Development (22%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Elizabeth Shiras Tw's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Storehouse for Teachers D/B/A the Education Partnership ($31k), The Crossroads Foundation ($28k), Mommys Imagination Station Inc ($25k).
- Does Elizabeth Shiras Tw fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth Shiras Tw accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Shiras Tw?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.
- Where is Elizabeth Shiras Tw based?
- Elizabeth Shiras Tw is based in PA.
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