New York · Private foundation
James R Shields Private Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $560k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2026
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 5% of the organizations James R Shields Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 22 | $540k | 36% |
| FY2025 | 20 | $453k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $540k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $569k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $552k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $445k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $400k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pufferbelly Junction Inc | $255,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Bishop Dwenger High School | $250,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fort Wayne Trails Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Euell a Wilson Center Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Vincent Village Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James R Shields Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Zollner Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc
How this is measured
Compare James R Shields Private Foundation with peer funders
About James R Shields Private Foundation
- How much does James R Shields Private Foundation give?
- James R Shields Private Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $560,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does James R Shields Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are James R Shields Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Pufferbelly Junction Inc ($255k), Bishop Dwenger High School ($250k), Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc ($150k).
- Does James R Shields Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James R Shields Private 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 James R Shields Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, M E Raker Foundation Inc, The James Foundation Inc.
- Where is James R Shields Private Foundation based?
- James R Shields Private Foundation is based in NY.
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