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Kershaw's Challenge
KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE mission is to provide funds and other assistance to build schools and orphanages in the town of lusaka in the country of zambia and to provide support for other organizations in the united states.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $419k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Kershaw's Challenge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $835k 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 | 11 | $2.2M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $2.5M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $2.5M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $1.7M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $2.0M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $1.6M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arise Africa Inc | $2,773,000 | 8 | 31% |
| International Justice Mission | $2,245,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Both Ends Believing Inc | $2,095,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Dream Center Foundation | $1,885,267 | 8 | 2% |
| Behind Every Door Ministries Inc | $1,470,268 | 4 | 30% |
| Shoes That Fit | $995,113 | 4 | 11% |
| The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation | $800,000 | 4 | 4% |
| For Oak Cliff | $700,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Bonton Enterprises | $520,000 | 2 | 5% |
| For the Nations Refugee Outreach | $410,000 | 2 | 7% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arise Africa Inc | $2,773,000 | 8 | 31% |
| International Justice Mission | $2,245,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Both Ends Believing Inc | $2,095,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Dream Center Foundation | $1,885,267 | 8 | 2% |
| Behind Every Door Ministries Inc | $1,470,268 | 4 | 30% |
| Shoes That Fit | $995,113 | 4 | 11% |
| The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation | $800,000 | 4 | 4% |
| For Oak Cliff | $700,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Bonton Enterprises | $520,000 | 2 | 5% |
| For the Nations Refugee Outreach | $410,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Interfaith Family Services | $340,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Cure International Inc | $332,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Hope Walks Inc | $290,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Connecting Point of Park Cities | $250,000 | 1 | 61% |
| Our Calling | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Dallas Community School Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 84% |
| Action in Africa Inc | $175,000 | 1 | 12% |
| New Friends New Life | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Just Keep Livin Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Kershaw's Challenge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Kershaw Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Inc · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Hillcrest Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Kershaw's Challenge
- How much does Kershaw's Challenge give?
- Kershaw's Challenge reported 11 grants totaling $2,205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kershaw's Challenge fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (52%), Human Services (15%), Health (10%).
- Who are Kershaw's Challenge's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arise Africa Inc ($2.8M), International Justice Mission ($2.2M), Both Ends Believing Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Kershaw's Challenge fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kershaw's Challenge?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kershaw Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Kershaw's Challenge based?
- Kershaw's Challenge is based in TX.
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