Illinois · Private foundation
Sanjay Shah Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $234k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $198,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 99
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sanjay Shah Foundation 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.
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 | 3 | $234k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $168k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $150k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $196k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $267k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 99 | $191k | 95% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $429k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $220k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellowship Housing Corporation | $440,000 | 3 | 7% |
| William Rainey Harper College Educational Foundation | $128,000 | 7 | 1% |
| College of Dupage Foundation | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Indiaspora | $45,000 | 5 | 3% |
| New Moms Inc | $30,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwest Community Music Academy | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dupage Children's Museum | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Glen Ellyn Childrens Resource Center | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 45 grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sanjay Shah 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.
Open a dossier: Motorola Solutions Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Omron Foundation Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Sanjay Shah Foundation
- How much does Sanjay Shah Foundation give?
- Sanjay Shah Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sanjay Shah Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Housing & Shelter (24%), Education (11%).
- Who are Sanjay Shah Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fellowship Housing Corporation ($440k), William Rainey Harper College Educational Foundation ($128k), College of Dupage Foundation ($70k).
- Does Sanjay Shah Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sanjay Shah Foundation 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 Sanjay Shah Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Motorola Solutions Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, The Dupage Community Foundation.
- Where is Sanjay Shah Foundation based?
- Sanjay Shah Foundation is based in IL.
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