Illinois · Private foundation
Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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.
- $548k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $236,321
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $721k
- 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 Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 | 72 | $548k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $587k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $487k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $199k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $123k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation | $807,423 | 6 | 3% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $247,685 | 6 | 0% |
| West Side Connector | $125,000 | 3 | 36% |
| Trinity High School | $50,547 | 6 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $26,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Lowes Foundation | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Hephzibah Children's Association | $18,510 | 5 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $17,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Fenwick High School | $17,536 | 6 | n/a |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $16,200 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($338k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 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: Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Irish Woods Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · The Christopher Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities
How this is measured
Compare Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation with peer funders
About Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation
- How much does Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation give?
- Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $547,781 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Human Services (11%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation ($807k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($248k), West Side Connector ($125k).
- Does Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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 Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Heart Work Smart Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation based?
- Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation is based in IL.
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