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M C Shook Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$59,659
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations M C Shook Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$105k0%
FY20248$97k0%
FY20238$99k0%
FY20228$99k13%
FY20217$92k0%
FY20208$86k0%
FY20198$80k0%
FY20188$82k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$411kHuman Services$225kEducation$135kHealth$18kYouth Development$14kHousing & Shelter$9kPhilanthropy$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wayland Baptist University$135,00090%
The West Texas Rehabilitation Center$18,00090%
West Texas Boys Ranch$9,00090%
United Way of the Concho Valley Inc$4,00040%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($653k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About M C Shook Trust

How much does M C Shook Trust give?
M C Shook Trust reported 8 grants totaling $105,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does M C Shook Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Human Services (27%), Education (16%).
Who are M C Shook Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wayland Baptist University ($135k), The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ($18k), West Texas Boys Ranch ($9k).
Does M C Shook Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does M C Shook Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as M C Shook Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is M C Shook Trust based?
M C Shook Trust is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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