Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Shaffer Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $610k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Shaffer Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $485k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $457k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $572k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $598k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $617k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $579k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $475k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $606k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Bethany Inc | $280,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 1% |
| St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Project of Easton Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Children's Home of Easton Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service | $95,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley | $90,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Allentown Symphony Association Inc | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shaffer 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 · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation
How this is measured
About Shaffer Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Shaffer Family Charitable Trust give?
- Shaffer Family Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $609,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Shaffer Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Education (8%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Shaffer Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Bethany Inc ($280k), Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc ($175k), St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa ($150k).
- Does Shaffer Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shaffer 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 Shaffer 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 Shaffer Family Charitable Trust based?
- Shaffer Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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