New Jersey · Private foundation
Shaftel Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $259k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $253k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Shaftel Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 45 | $253k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $238k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $165k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $222k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsley Trust Association | $102,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Unitarian Church of All Souls | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $40,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Cheshire Academy | $34,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Fiver Children's Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hear Now Music Festival | $23,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Wnet | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($378k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shaftel Family Foundation Inc 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Big Wood Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Block Grausman Fund · Ponagansett Foundation Inc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Jaffe Family Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830
How this is measured
About Shaftel Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Shaftel Family Foundation Inc give?
- Shaftel Family Foundation Inc reported 55 itemized grants totaling $253,475, out of $259,475 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Shaftel Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (12%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Shaftel Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kingsley Trust Association ($103k), Unitarian Church of All Souls ($50k), New York City Ballet Inc ($41k).
- Does Shaftel Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shaftel Family 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 Shaftel Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Fjc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Shaftel Family Foundation Inc based?
- Shaftel Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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