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Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.6M
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,122,421
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,122,421
Organizations funded a year
5 to 5
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20215$5.6M0%
FY20205$200kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Health$3.5MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$1.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,162,42120%
Holy Cross Episcopal Church$1,162,4212n/a
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$1,162,42121%
American Heart Association Inc$1,162,42120%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

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About Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation

How much does Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation give?
Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,612,105 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (60%), Human Services (20%), Religion (20%).
Who are Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($1.2M), Holy Cross Episcopal Church ($1.2M), The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($1.2M).
Does Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gerald a Shearer Charitable 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.
Where is Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation based?
Gerald a Shearer Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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