How much does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn give?

Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn reported 26 grants totaling $570,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Environment (18%), Animals (14%).

Who are Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Antique Boat Museum ($255k), Save the River Inc ($203k), Historic Deerfield Inc ($198k).

Does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn 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 Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn based?

Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$570k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 4%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 32; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $6.9M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$570k	15%
FY2024	27	$533k	4%
FY2023	26	$514k	4%
FY2022	32	$555k	13%
FY2021	29	$456k	7%
FY2020	29	$406k	n/a

88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$533kAnimals$431kEducation$335kHealth$221kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$46kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

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
The Antique Boat Museum	$255,000	6	2%
Save the River Inc	$202,500	6	9%
Historic Deerfield Inc	$197,500	6	1%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$190,000	5	0%
Shelburne Museum Inc	$170,000	6	1%
Seneca Park Zoo Society	$150,000	6	1%
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc	$120,000	5	0%
Rochester Institute of Technology	$110,000	6	0%
Abilis Inc	$102,500	6	0%
The Great Lakes Historical Society	$85,000	6	1%

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All grantees of Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Antique Boat Museum	$255,000	6	2%
Save the River Inc	$202,500	6	9%
Historic Deerfield Inc	$197,500	6	1%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$190,000	5	0%
Shelburne Museum Inc	$170,000	6	1%
Seneca Park Zoo Society	$150,000	6	1%
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc	$120,000	5	0%
Rochester Institute of Technology	$110,000	6	0%
Abilis Inc	$102,500	6	0%
The Great Lakes Historical Society	$85,000	6	1%
The Spence School	$75,000	6	0%
Herreshoff Marine Museum	$70,000	6	1%
Genesee Country Museum	$67,500	6	0%
St Lawrence University	$50,000	3	0%
Greenwich Hospital	$48,500	5	0%
New York Museum of Transportation	$42,750	3	16%
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Inc	$26,000	4	0%
Genesee Valley Audubon Society	$25,000	5	32%
The Lake George Association Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Hunt Hollow Race Team Inc	$20,000	2	10%
Hillside Children's Center	$20,000	1	0%
The Rochester General Hospital	$20,000	2	0%
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Aquinas Institute of Rochester	$7,500	1	0%
The Norman Howard School	$7,500	1	0%
Braddock Bay Bird Observatory Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($936k), not named here.

Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Ibm International Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn

How much does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn give?: Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn reported 26 grants totaling $570,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Environment (18%), Animals (14%).
Who are Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Antique Boat Museum ($255k), Save the River Inc ($203k), Historic Deerfield Inc ($198k).
Does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc.
Where is Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn based?: Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn is based in TX.