Illinois · Private foundation
L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001
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.
- $187k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2026
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,998
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,998
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 17 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 17 | $165k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $196k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $167k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $159k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $133k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $116k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$517kAnimals$194kEnvironment$129kSocial Science$73kEducation$65kHuman Services$65kPhilanthropy$65k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $75,710 | 8 | n/a |
| Seneca Park Zoo Society | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc | $75,710 | 8 | 1% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of the City of New York | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan-Manning House | $75,710 | 8 | 16% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $75,710 | 8 | n/a |
| Seneca Park Zoo Society | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc | $75,710 | 8 | 1% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of the City of New York | $75,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan-Manning House | $75,710 | 8 | 16% |
| Rochester Historical Society | $75,095 | 8 | 11% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $6,839 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($455k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.
Compare L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 with peer funders
About L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001
- How much does L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 give?
- L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 reported 17 grants totaling $186,966 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Animals (18%), Environment (12%).
- Who are L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: The Salvation Army ($76k), Seneca Park Zoo Society ($76k), New York Botanical Garden ($76k).
- Does L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 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.
- Where is L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 based?
- L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001 is based in IL.
Play a game based on L Shafer Fb Var Charities Xxxxx8001’s filings →
More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home