Indiana · Private foundation
Sam Shine Foundation Inc
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.
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,301,280
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $136M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Sam Shine Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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 | 18 | $4.7M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.2M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.8M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $573k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $13M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nokuse Education Inc | $5,005,811 | 4 | 44% |
| River Heritage Conservancy Inc | $2,040,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Woodie Wheaton Land Trust | $1,468,357 | 4 | 82% |
| Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc | $1,200,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated | $1,186,500 | 3 | 33% |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated | $578,500 | 4 | 6% |
| The Conservation Law Center Inc | $530,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Friends of the Ohio River Greenway | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $321,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sam Shine Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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 Nature Conservancy · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Paul Ogle Foundation Inc · Starlight Foundation Inc · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sam Shine Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Shine Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Shine Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $5,450,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sam Shine Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Animals (32%), Education (1%).
- Who are Sam Shine Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nokuse Education Inc ($5.0M), River Heritage Conservancy Inc ($2.0M), Woodie Wheaton Land Trust ($1.5M).
- Does Sam Shine Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Shine Foundation Inc 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 Sam Shine Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nature Conservancy, Duke Energy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Sam Shine Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Shine Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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