New York · Private foundation
Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family 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.
- $354k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation 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; $30k 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 | 18 | $329k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $361k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $358k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $244k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $128k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $23k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $128k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The New 42nd Street Inc | $240,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northside Center for Child Development Inc | $223,566 | 8 | 0% |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc | $95,658 | 4 | 0% |
| Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc | $60,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Workshop Learning | $46,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peaceful Families Project | $25,000 | 3 | 11% |
| National Constitution Center | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The New 42nd Street Inc | $240,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northside Center for Child Development Inc | $223,566 | 8 | 0% |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc | $95,658 | 4 | 0% |
| Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc | $60,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Workshop Learning | $46,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peaceful Families Project | $25,000 | 3 | 11% |
| National Constitution Center | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Goddard Riverside Community Center | $20,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Filipino ArtistsInc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Right to Be Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Widener University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Brown Girls Doc Mafia Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pratt Institute | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family 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: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation
- How much does Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation give?
- Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $353,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (35%), Health (7%).
- Who are Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc ($275k), The New 42nd Street Inc ($240k), Northside Center for Child Development Inc ($224k).
- Does Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family 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 Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation based?
- Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn Family Foundation is based in NY.
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