Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $972k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 | 69 | $967k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $878k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $963k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $883k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $844k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $775k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $819k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Resources for Justice Inc | $632,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citizens for Juvenile Justice Inc | $287,500 | 9 | 7% |
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | $175,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Petey Greene Program Inc | $154,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc | $153,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Old Colony Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services Inc Dba Prisoners' Legal Svcs | $142,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Worcester Common Ground Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Neads Inc | $124,053 | 8 | 0% |
| Emerson College | $112,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 111 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Philanthropy Connection Inc · Barr Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation
- How much does Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation give?
- Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $971,660 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (53%), Human Services (11%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Resources for Justice Inc ($632k), Citizens for Juvenile Justice Inc ($288k), Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($175k).
- Does Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation based?
- Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation is based in MA.
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