Texas · Private foundation
Kershaw Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Kershaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.8M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kershaw's Challenge | $1,341,209 | 5 | 15% |
| The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation | $510,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Arise Africa Inc | $342,250 | 4 | 5% |
| Mercy Street | $320,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Human Trafficking Institute | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Store Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Men of Nehemiah Inc | $235,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Interfaith Family Services | $220,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Highland Park Presbyterian Church | $215,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kershaw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · McCamey Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Toon Charities · Hillcrest Foundation · Servant Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kershaw Foundation
- How much does Kershaw Foundation give?
- Kershaw Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,049,585 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Kershaw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (31%), Health (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Kershaw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kershaw's Challenge ($1.3M), The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation ($510k), Arise Africa Inc ($342k).
- Does Kershaw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kershaw 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 Kershaw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Rees-Jones Foundation.
- Where is Kershaw Foundation based?
- Kershaw Foundation is based in TX.
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