Massachusetts · Private foundation
Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $231k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 14 | $18k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $16k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $13k | 81% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $22k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $23k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $21k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Care Advocacy Center | $7,750 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc | $5,185 | 2 | 0% |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Partners in Education Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $2,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Artists for Humanity Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation
- How much does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation give?
- Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $17,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Human Services (13%), Education (11%).
- Who are Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foster Care Advocacy Center ($8k), American Friends of Natal Inc ($6k), Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc ($5k).
- Does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation based?
- Norman M Shack Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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