Louisiana · Private foundation
Hyslop Shannon Foundation
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.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Hyslop Shannon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 43 | $194k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $176k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $180k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $252k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $234k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $221k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $211k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans | $246,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Chicago a Cappella | $103,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Electri International - the Foundation for Electrical Construction Inc | $83,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Broken Radiance Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $61,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola University | $51,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute | $48,000 | 4 | 15% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $36,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Audubon Nature Institute Inc | $33,250 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hyslop Shannon Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Goldring Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · The Azby Fund
How this is measured
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About Hyslop Shannon Foundation
- How much does Hyslop Shannon Foundation give?
- Hyslop Shannon Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $193,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Hyslop Shannon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Hyslop Shannon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans ($246k), Chicago a Cappella ($103k), Electri International - the Foundation for Electrical Construction Inc ($83k).
- Does Hyslop Shannon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hyslop Shannon 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hyslop Shannon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is Hyslop Shannon Foundation based?
- Hyslop Shannon Foundation is based in LA.
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