Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Shafer Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- 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 Shafer Family Charitable 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.
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 | 19 | $78k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $81k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $71k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $73k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $72k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $65k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Home of Easton Inc | $43,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Albrightsville Volunteer Fire Company | $33,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Epworth United Methodist Church | $26,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Moravian Village of Bethlehem | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| State Theatre Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Artsquest | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Flint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Equi-Librium Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Visions of Eagles Foundation | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Home of Easton Inc | $43,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Albrightsville Volunteer Fire Company | $33,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Epworth United Methodist Church | $26,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Moravian Village of Bethlehem | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| State Theatre Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Artsquest | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Flint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Equi-Librium Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Visions of Eagles Foundation | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lehigh Valley Zoological Society | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra | $5,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Sights for Hope | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project of Easton Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bethlehem Area Public Library | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Recreation Services Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Nazareth Fire Department Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southside Film Institute | $500 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shafer Family Charitable Trust 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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Waldman Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Shafer Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Shafer Family Charitable Trust give?
- Shafer Family Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $78,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shafer Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Human Services (15%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Shafer Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Children's Home of Easton Inc ($43k), Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation ($40k), Albrightsville Volunteer Fire Company ($33k).
- Does Shafer Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shafer Family Charitable Trust 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 Shafer Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Air Products Foundation.
- Where is Shafer Family Charitable Trust based?
- Shafer Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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